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...time, Moscow was buzzing with rumors that Premier Georgy Malenkov was on the way out. And although one Nikita Khrushchev, then party first secretary, officially denied the rumors, he pointedly urged his guests to talk to Defense Minister Nikolai Bulganin. Ignoring the hint, the Hearst crew featured Khrushchev's official denial-SOVIET SHUNS WAR, DENIES MALENKOV AND HE MAY SPLIT-which ran in Hearst papers just the day before Malenkov resigned, to be replaced by Khrushchev's hand-picked choice: Nikolai Bulganin...
...most preoccupied men around were a pair of non-Austrians: U.S. Press Secretary Pierre Salinger and a 6-ft., muscular Russian general, Nikolai Zakharov, chief of Khrushchev's bodyguard. They huddled with each other and with Austrian officials, making program and security arrangements. Little trouble is expected from the thousands of Hungarian and other Iron Curtain refugees. Those who have not already migrated are contentedly working in unemployment-free Vienna. Reinforcements moved in for the Marine guard at the U.S. embassy. In deference to Austrian neutrality, they took off their blouses and military caps while traveling...
Fedorov's account suggested that the cosmonaut landed inside his space capsule, but according to other sources in Russia, Major Gagarin parachuted out of the capsule before it hit the ground. Space Scientist Nikolai Gurovsky said: "The cosmonaut came down smoothly in a glade near a field. Landing on his feet, without even tumbling, he walked up to the people...
...equals; he and other coaches spent too much time on paper work and not enough time on coaching-which resulted in poor discipline among the players, who conducted themselves in Rome with un-Soviet individualism while the Americans ran a happy, smooth cooperative. Moreover, top Soviet Basketball Boss Nikolai Semashko believed Spandarian's tall tales, and together they had "shelved" resolutions exposing the sad fact that the Russian team was "inadequately prepared physically, tactically, and especially technically." Noted Grigoriev sadly: "The fast break, once our most dreaded weapon, is now used only sporadically, and chiefly against our weakest opponents...
Pilfered Ears. Ukrainian Party Secretary Nikolai Podgorny, member of the ruling Presidium, was next. When he asserted that his region's harvest was "almost on the previous year's level," Khrushchev snorted. And when Podgorny said bad weather cut corn yields, Khrushchev gave him a brutal verbal beating. "I'm certain, Comrade Podgorny, that the figures on corn yield you just cited are only for half the crop. The other half of the corn was stolen, torn up by the roots." "Correct, Nikita Sergeevich," cringed Podgorny. Roared Khrushchev: "So what has the weather to do with...