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...proceedings are so stylized that they are sterilized: in the middle of Bulganin's long reading, Khrushchev got to chatting to other members of the Presidium, and Molotov even got up and left the room for a while...
...entire Presidium of the Central Committee and all Cabinet ministers were on the tarmac at 6 p.m. when the gleaming Soviet plane taxied into Moscow's main airport. As Nehru, in Gandhi cap, white churidar (trousers) and brown sherwani (coat), a red rose in his second buttonhole, stepped from the plane, 18 Russian children released a cloud of white doves and rushed forward with huge bouquets of flowers. So engulfed in flowers was Nehru that Marshal Georgy Zhukov ordered Red army guards to pass the flowers over to Indian embassy officials. Premier Bulganin came forward and introduced his Cabinet...
...poaching. The Soviet Union, its officials quickly pointed out, had taken the whales under Article VIII of the International Agreement on Whaling. This clause enables a certain number of baleen whales to be caught for scientific purposes before or after the season starts. Rumors from sources close to the Presidium also note that whales are just little off-short islands anyway, and naturally belong...
While no man as yet has asserted full control of the Presidium, no outside force, such as the army, is strong enough to dominate it, Berman said...
Although Nikita Khruschchev now is party secretary, considered the position of most authority in the Soviet state structure, Berman feels that he has no more power inside the Presidium itself than any of the other members...