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Opportunities & Dangers. But these are times when more than thawing and stoking is needed. The sob-punctuated speech of Communist Party Boss Nikita Khrushchev (see FOREIGN NEWS) threw new light on a critical area of weakness in the Soviet system. To exploit the opportunities offered by that weakness, the U.S. needs, more than ever, a bold, imaginative, skillful foreign policy...
...message for Communists everywhere. Like Hamlet's father, the old dictator gave notice that he was doomed to walk the night and "to fast in fires till the foul crimes done in my days of nature are burnt and purged away." The man who raised the ghost was Nikita Khrushchev, no Prince Hamlet, but now Stalin's clearest heir...
Joseph Stalin is an historic figure; or at least he once was an historic figure. The more recent version of Nikita Khrushchev maintains that Stalin was not only unworthy of being historic, but also of meriting the merest existence. In support of his theory, the new Soviet leader has sent busy little men scurrying about Russia removing busts, portraits, biographies, and pictures of the departed Stalin. As a result, the man who once dominated every museum, bookstore, and subway station is now ceasing to have existed...
...less concrete vein, he might order all babies born on Sundays to be named Nikita. He could try making polygamy legal for himself--thus memorializing his family name as well. Less praiseworthy, but more effective would be an eternal life potion, and, of course, liquidation of all possible successors...
...Friend Nikita. One of the things that has clearly helped Ninotchka Ekaterina to power is the support of bulletheaded Nikita Khrushchev. She went along with Khrushchev on his junkets to Czechoslovakia and Red China (1954). At the May Day celebrations last year, Khrushchev spotted her standing among the crowd of party officials in Red Square and, before the onlooking thousands, came trotting down from Lenin's tomb to greet her and lead her to a place beside the great. Life has not been quite the same for Ekaterina since...