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Well in advance of next spring's summit palaver, who should flit into Paris from Moscow but Izvestia's Editor in Chief Aleksei Adzhubei and his buxom wife Rada, daughter of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. If their general air of good will was any portent, the summit itself should be festooned with olive branches. To an Air France greeter, Newsman Adzhubei joked (in Russian): "You ought to have two classes on your planes - one for the thin ones, one for the fat." Then he grabbed a microphone, glowed: "I wish everyone a good year and, since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 4, 1960 | 1/4/1960 | See Source »

...Nikita Khrushchev, short, bald and portly, wearing a black suit, Homburg and three small medals, bowing down the receiving line, accepting a 21-gun salute, parading past a guard of honor. There on his one hand stood his pleasant, shy wife Nina Petrovna, his daughters Julia, 38, and Rada, 29, his studious-looking son Sergei, 24, and a retinue of 63 officials and bureaucrats. There on his other hand stood President Eisenhower. "Permit me at this moment to thank Mr. Eisenhower for the invitation," Khrushchev said graciously, responding to the President's coolly proper speech of greeting. "The Soviet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: The Elemental Force | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

...become a social science teacher, married Khrushchev in 1938. She is his second wife -First Wife Nadezhda died-and she raised Khrushchev's children. Three of the children will be with them in the U.S.: Julia, 38, a chemist, married to Kiev Opera Director Viktor Gonchar; Rada, 29, a biologist, married to Izvestia Editor Alexei Adzhubei; Sergei, 24, an electrical engineer. Khrushchev's son Leonid was a Red air force pilot killed early in World War II, and his daughter Lena, 21, is now a law student at Moscow University. Mostly back home, Mrs. Khrushchev keeps house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FAMILY: WHO'S WHO WITH KHRUSHCHEV | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

...Moines and Ames, Iowa to check security angles at airports, hotels and along principal streets. The State Department gulped at the word from Moscow that the size of the Khrushchev official party had reached almost 100, headed up by his wife, Nina, sixtyish; two daughters, Julia, 38, and Rada, 29: son Sergei, 24; and son-in-law, Aleksei Adzhubei. Then State turned to making arrangements for some 300 U.S. newsmen who have applied to follow the grand tour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Red Flags & Black Armbands | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

...theater "as much as she would like to." The Khrushchevs have a downtown apartment in Moscow, a house in Lenin Hills of the boxy type favored by Nikita, nicknamed a Khrushchobka by builders, a dacha in the Crimea. In Moscow also are his son and two daughters, Nadia and Rada (of whom he once jokingly said, "They keep me from paying taxes"): one daughter married to roly-poly Alexei Adzhubei, editor of Komsomolskaya Pravda, organ of the young Communists; the other talked about all over Moscow for having stolen the handsome boy friend of a famous actress. There is also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: The Quick & the Dead | 7/22/1957 | See Source »

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