Word: surprisee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In a surprise gesture of friendliness, Khrushchev invited the Nixons, Milton Eisenhower and Ambassador Thompson to spend that night at his cream-colored dacha 20 miles outside Moscow. The invitation was promptly accepted.
House. A surprise guest was Khrushchev's wife Nadezhda, who, like most Kremlin wives, usually stays offstage. Speaking serviceable English, she chatted amiably with Pat Nixon, who had been spending her days visiting orphanages and hospitals.
Khrushchev's amiability even survived Nixon's surprise announcement near week's end that, after his tour of industrial centers in the Urals and Siberia this week, he is planning to make a four-day visit to satellite Poland on the way back to the U.S. In...
Two Hundred Years of Brass Music (The Chamber Brass Players; Classic Editions, mono). Two trumpets, a trombone, a French horn and a tuba huff their way through the once enormously popular brass works of several composers, some famed, most of them forgotten-Tielman Susato, Giovanni Gabrieli, Antony Hoiborne, Johann Petzold...
AGES OF MAN (Columbia). Sir John Gielgud's Shakespeare sampler is presented at roughly half the length at which it was seen last season on Broadway. Gielgud's voice is never a particularly impressive instrument, and when the going requires full bellows, it seems in danger of failing...