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Next morning, while Eisenhower, De Gaulle and Macmillan met in the Elysée Palace to make a last attempt to save the summit, Khrushchev climbed into a big, black Zil convertible with Defense Minister Rodion Malinovsky and went bowling off into the country. Spotting a wood chopper beside the road, Nikita had the car stopped, leaped out and seized the ax from the startled peasant. After lopping off a few branches from a fallen tree, Nikita popped back into the car, perspiring. At the tiny village of Pleurs, he lifted a glass of champagne and shouted, "Vive la paix...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Wrecker | 5/30/1960 | See Source »

Throughout the applause, Nikita Khrushchev and Defense Minister Rodion Malinovsky were unsmiling and wooden-faced. The next day they climbed again into the white Ilyushin 18 and flew back to Moscow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Wrecker | 5/30/1960 | See Source »

...whose short-cropped grey hair and bulldog face were in dour contrast to his gleaming epaulets and the nine rows of gaily colored medal ribbons that adorned his chest. By no accident, the wrecking of the Paris summit coincided with the West's first close-up look at Rodion Malinovsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union and Russia's Minister of Defense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: The Fellow Traveler | 5/30/1960 | See Source »

...Khrushchev's peaceful coexistence has always had its hard underside; after all, the summit conference was precipitated in the first place by his threats to West Berlin. In Paris last week, Rodion Malinovsky was an overt reminder of the brute force that Russia's Communists command if they chose to turn tough. He was also the visible symbol of one of the forces that press upon Khrushchev...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: The Fellow Traveler | 5/30/1960 | See Source »

Iron Man. At 61, Rodion Yakovlevich Malinovsky is deprecated by many Soviet officers as a political marshal and a Khrushchev stooge. Gross (5 ft. 7 in., nearly 300 lbs.), diabetic and slow-moving, he retains the abrupt manner of a noncom. But over a 40-year career in the Red army, he has combined a talent for political survival with an impressive combat record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: The Fellow Traveler | 5/30/1960 | See Source »

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