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...live like a hermit on the outskirts of Moscow. I communicate only with those who guard me from others-and who guard others from me." Thus begin the reminiscences of former Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, who was the most powerful man in the Soviet Union from 1955 until his downfall in 1964. Khrushchev's rather forlorn comment on his enforced six-year silence is all the more poignant coming from a man who stood for so long at the center of history. At week's end the ex-Premier, 76, was admitted to a Moscow hospital, reportedly suffering...
...detours into side streets. Apparently Stalin had a street plan of Moscow and worked out a different route every time. He didn't even tell his bodyguard in advance." Stalin refused to eat anything until someone else first tried it. He would say: "Look, here are the giblets, Nikita. Have you tried them yet?" Khrushchev, knowing that his host wanted some for himself but was afraid to be first, would reply, "Oh, I forgot." The only member of his circle exempt from this tasting ritual was NKVD Chief Lavrenty Beria, who ate only food transported from his own dacha...
...journalistic coup, it would be hard to beat the publication of Nikita Khrushchev's reminiscences. Last week LIFE announced that it had accomplished just that coup. Beginning with its issue of Nov. 23, the magazine will serialize Khrushchev Remembers in four successive installments. The articles will be accompanied by previously unpublished pictures; the entire undertaking was carried out in deep secrecy, and was given the code name "The Jones Project." On Dec. 21, Little, Brown (owned by Time Inc.) will publish the 275,000-word book. LIFE and Little, Brown announced that they "are convinced beyond any doubt...
...security (some of the U.N.'s own 230-man guard force used the occasion to stage a "sick-out" in support of wage demands). In 1960, the 34 world leaders who showed up for the U.N.'s 15th anniversary included such luminaries as Dwight Eisenhower, Nikita Khrushchev, Jawaharlal Nehru and Fidel Castro...
...when he returns to the Elysée Palace this week will be a specially printed copy of De Gaulle's new volume bearing the phrase, "Especially printed for . . ." Only 16 others are in existence, directed to such luminaries as Pope Paul, Mamie Eisenhower, Queen Elizabeth and Nikita Khrushchev...