Word: nikolais
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...ship Pobeda sailed from Italy with some 400 homeward-bound U.S.S.R. tourists aboard, the Soviet embassy in Rome sprang a surprise: two of the sightseers, bustling incognita about the city's antiquities, had been a daughter of Nildta Khrushchev, Rada, and a daughter-in-law of Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin, Ina-a kind of junior ladies' division of the famous B. & K. traveling troupe. Neither lady's husband made the trip; Rada had prosaically explained: "My husband is just another Russian who works in Moscow. He could not get a vacation...
Democracy was the keynote as the 1,300 members of the Supreme Soviet walked into the white hall of the Great Kremlin Palace to hear Premier Nikolai Bulganin deliver what was in effect a State of the Soviet Union message. They sat in their polished wood pews, drably dressed Baits and colorful Asians in skullcaps and shawls, gawking at the 8-ft. statue of Lenin and reading Pravda, hushing attentively while Bulganin pointed with pride to the nation's industrial output-up 12% over the first half of 1955-and viewed with alarm the disappointing performance of the coal...
...Fourth of July garden party in the U.S. embassy in Moscow, U.S. Ambassador Charles E. ("Chip") Bohlen led the Soviet Union's top topers, Nikita Khrushchev and Nikolai Bulganin, to a table laden with Scotch and bourbon. TV crewmen popped a microphone under the nose of Bulganin, who genially obliged with a toast to the American people and the health of Dwight Eisenhower. As some 600 diplomats and tourists milled about the lawn, Khrushchev chortled to a startled U.S. sightseer: "We have a lot to learn from Americans [but] they are afraid we might find out some secrets...
...from the Pope. Both Adlai Stevenson and New York's Governor Averell Harriman, leading candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination, issued statements hoping for the President's quick recovery. Out of Moscow came a get-well message from the Soviet Union's President Kliment Voroshilov, Premier Nikolai Bulganin and Communist Party Boss Nikita KhrUshchev...
...against Trotsky in the fight for power after Lenin died and was rewarded in 1930 with a Politburo seat and the first-secretaryship of the powerful Moscow Party Committee. It was in this job that he took under his political wing a mild-mannered and goateed young functionary named Nikolai Bulganin...