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...President's move, decided upon at Gettysburg weeks ago, was announced right on the heels of Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin's bombastic boast that the Soviet Union now leads the world in the peaceful use of atomic energy. But its real significance lay in reaffirming the humanitarian position taken by the U.S. as a matter of principle long before the Russians knew how to split an atom. Said the President: "This action demonstrates the confidence of the United States in the possibilities of developing nuclear power for civilian uses. It is an earnest of our faith that...
There was more politics than persistence in Shtykov's comeback. The man he replaced was Nikolai N. Shatalin, who had been in the top Moscow secretariat when Georgy Malenkov was Premier, but had been literally sent to Siberia when Khrushchev and Bulganin took over. Shtykov's return to favor is the latest in a series of significant changes in the Communist Party superstructure in the past month (others: in the Russian Republic, Lithuania, Uzbekistan). This sudden flurry of shake-ups apparently represents Khrushchev's increased grasp of the party machinery on the eve of this week...
...report that six former NKVD interrogators had been tried and executed for the murder of Ordzhonikidze, who in 1937 was said to have died naturally. Last week a seven-line paragraph on the back page of Pravda announced that Kruglov had been "released"' and would be replaced by Nikolai P. Dudorov, a little-known bureaucrat with Khrushchev connections...
...Life. Thus old-line Propagandist Nikolai Pogodin in a Moscow play, We Three Went to the Virgin Land, has his hero Marochka soliloquizing: "Now, tell yourself, why did you give such a lightning-like consent to go to the Virgin Land? Was it because of the fear of a [party] trial? I swear it is not only the fear of a trial . . . Over there in the wilderness I'll start a new life. The past will be buried. Everyone will be drinking; I'll not. I'll behave. I'll be almost a saint...
...turn, and the leading Russian plane collided with it. The Hungarian plane crashed and exploded with the pilot at the controls. The Russian plane also crashed, but its pilot came floating down to earth by parachute. Picked up by Austrian police, the Russian pilot identified himself as Captain Nikolai Konoklov, a veteran of the Soviet air force. Calmly and confidently he told his story: he had been ordered to intercept two unidentified planes flying over Hungarian territory. The collision was an accident...