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However ignominious was former Premier Nikolai Bulganin's performance in publicly confessing error at last month's Central Committee meeting in Moscow, it was not groveling enough to satisfy his sometime globetrotting pal, Nikita Khrushchev. Unprecedentedly, Moscow last week published a stenographic report of the December session at which Bulganin demeaned himself...
...stooped and paunchy but still very recognizable figure, the man with the white goatee and the riverboat gambler's eyes stepped onto the speaker's platform at Moscow's Central Committee meeting. Ex-Premier Nikolai Bulganin, still a Central Committee member though banished to the chairmanship of an obscure regional economic council in the north Caucasus, spoke his cringing words on the fourth day of debate...
...sent an apprehensive shudder through Iran's top thousand families and made them more receptive to the Shah's reforms. Though Iran is a Moslem nation, its people are not Arab, and the Shah is thus insulated from the Nasser virus. The Soviet Union, through pudgy Ambassador Nikolai Pegov, has lately purred friendship and slyly supported Iran's claim to Britain's oil-rich Bahrein Island. The Soviet Union sent its dancers and acrobats, sponsored joint Russian-Iranian projects such as locust control on the border, even promised junketing President Kliment Voroshilov would come to Teheran...
...case of Nikolai Bulganin: Feb. 8, 1955-Named Premier of Russia after long years of service as a commissar and then a marshal whose main job was to ensure party control of the army. Became the lesser half of the traveling team of B. and K. in glad-handing tours to Red China, India and Britain. March 27, 1958-Kicked out as Premier after siding with Molotov against Khrushchev in a Central Committee showdown. Four days later appointed chairman of the Soviet State Bank...
Gromyko wrapped up the deal by naming an eight-man delegation of Soviet scientists that ranged from Sputnik Authority Evgeny Federov through Nobel Prizewinning Chemist Nikolai Semenov to nonscientific Semyon K. Tsarapkin, one of Gromyko's oldtime U.N. scowlers. They will meet with the British and French delegates and the U.S. trio, composed of University of California Physicist Ernest O. Lawrence, Bell Telephone Laboratories' Executive Vice President James Fisk and Caltech Physicist Robert Bacher...