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...assumption, as a working hypothesis, that free governments in the long run are going to prevail, and despotic governments in the long run are going to go under." Dulles was answering a question at his weekly news conference, and even as he was talking, Russia's Nikita Khrushchev was maneuvering and striking against the Stalinists in one of the great upheavals of Kremlin history (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...political climate. When Earl Warren stepped up to the nation's highest bench, Stalinist aggression had produced a violent, often excessive U.S. reaction, most sharply expressed in the face and form of Senator Joseph Raymond McCarthy. Now McCarthy is dead, having outlived his ism, and the face of Nikita Khrushchev beams from U.S. television screens. Previous Supreme Courts had upheld security laws on the implied Holmesian basis of "clear and present danger." By comparison, Earl Warren's court has moved with drastic speed toward the implied concept of very little danger at all. Items...
...children's hospital, strode through driving rain to lay a wreath on the grave of Finland's late President Juho Paasikivi*. For the first 24 hours they even belied their well-earned reputation for heavy tippling. At the first state banquet in Helsinki, high-living Nikita Khrushchev limited himself to one Martini, and goateed Premier Bulganin clung firmly to a glass of orange juice, whirling his forefinger alongside his temple to indicate that stronger liquids made him dizzy. What little serious drinking took place was done by dour Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, who hopped about clinking glasses...
...preened itself last week on getting Nikita Khrushchev to Face the Nation (TIME, June 10), a television news beat that won front-page headlines, editorial-page applause, and even that rare tribute among broadcasters, the repeated use of CBS's name on NBC broadcasts. There were a few complaints, too, over giving Communism's high priest an opportunity to spin his spiel at 7,000,000 to 10,000,000 Americans. But only one sour note fretted CBS. It came from the White House...
...Nikita Khrushchev moved out of his wood-paneled office in the Kremlin one day last week so a CBS crew could strew it with cameras, lights and sound equipment. Next afternoon Russia's most powerful Communist stepped into the glare wearing the light grey suit the TV men had suggested, and two Hero of Socialist Labor medals on his chest. He firmly rejected any makeup, declined earphones for the simultaneous translation system, corrected an introduction describing the office as the room where Russia's major decisions are made: "We don't have a cult of personality...