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Remember the great debate in 1959, when Nilcita Khrushchev and Richard Nixon slugged it out over the dishwashers at a Moscow exhibition? Last week the ex-Premier, tanned and much trimmer at 74, ambled through another kitchenware show, Moscow's International Household and Services Equipment Fair. With Wife Nina, Nikita Sergeevich swapped memories and jokes with fairgoers and, though avoiding the U.S. Pavilion, strolled over to the British exhibit, where he reluctantly turned down a bottle of Scotch after Nina chirped in English, "Oh, no. He does not drink any more." That ban does not apply to suds, however...
Inside the polling station at Moscow's Secondary School No. 70, the face was familiar and the voting proctors did not demand the customary identification papers. Nilcita Khrushchev, 72, looking considerably older and thinner, quietly folded his ballot and dropped it into the urn, casting his meaningless vote for his Moscow district's unopposed candidate for the Supreme Soviet, or Parliament. The candidate's name: Alexei Kosygin, the fellow who, with Leonid Brezhnev, put Khrushchev out of a job two years ago. It was a rare public appearance for Nikita Sergeevich, and a crowd of nearly...
...Fool informed King Lear on the heath: "Prithee, nuncle, be contented; 'tis a naughty night to swim in. Now a little fire . . ." Russia's new Lear, Nilcita Khrushchev, passed his 72nd birthday on the heath outside his dacha near Moscow. His family held a pleasant little party all right, but alack, the palace-controlled Soviet press had neither poetry nor prose to mark the event. To them, the king is dead. And when the old dictator lit a bonfire to celebrate, the heavens opened and the rains doused Nikita's flame...
Italy's usually reliable news agency, Continentale, confided to all that Soviet Premier Nilcita Khrushchev (see FOREIGN NEWS) has instructed his loyal Kremlin aides to nominate him for the next Nobel Peace Prize...
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