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...Moscow correspondent reported a rumor that Khrushchev had been the target of an assassination attempt. After a Kremlin spokesman denounced the story as a "provocative lie," L'Unità tried to pin the rumor on Western newsmen. Khrushchev, meanwhile, was relaxing at his Black Sea villa near Sochi and joked with a visiting Brazilian diplomat about the reported attempt on his life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: Grey-Flannel Communism | 2/16/1962 | See Source »

...Andrei Gromyko went to the White House to see Kennedy, principally about Laos. Again the matter of a meeting of the two K.s came up, and Kennedy said he was willing. Two weeks later, Khrushchev took visiting U.S. Pundit Walter Lippmann aside in the garden of a villa in Sochi and confided the news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Toward Vienna | 5/26/1961 | See Source »

...traveling choice is still wide. The tourist can visit 27 Soviet cities on any of 45 Intourist itineraries, ranging from five to 23 days. The main travel circuit includes Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Tbilisi (the Eastern-flavored capital of Soviet Georgia), and the seaside resorts of the Black Sea (Sochi, Sukhumi, Yalta). More adventurous tourists can go to Riga, capital of Latvia; Irkutsk, the burgeoning capital of eastern Siberia; or far east to Tashkent and Alma-Ata. Intourist will also permit tourists to hunt in the Crimean game preserves, once reserved for Soviet V.I.P.s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRAVEL: Rubbernecking in Russia | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

...came the riots at Poznan. Someone in Moscow remembered Gomulka, the one man who, because of his war record, his persecution, but most of all his patriotism, could perhaps win public sympathy and stem the rising tide of revolt. Ailing Gomulka was taken from his cottage and sent to Sochi on the Black Sea for recuperation. But when the Politburo invited him to become party secretary he said: "I do not wish to enter your Politburo. The Politburo I enter will have to be changed entirely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Rebellious Compromiser | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

...paid more attention to him than to Khrushchev at his side (after all, had not Tito, alone of all those present, successfully defied Stalin?). Tito, for his part, assured the crowds at Kiev: "We have abandoned all that was bad between us," and at the Black Sea resort of Sochi he cried: "I feel at home in the Soviet Union, because we are part of the same family, the family of Socialism." And in Moscow he said, "We never betrayed the cause for which we struggled under our Communist Party." Tito was doing his best to show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: RUSSIA SCORES ONE ON COMRADE TITO | 7/2/1956 | See Source »

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