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Smiling but reticent during most of her strenuous tour across the U.S. with her husband, Nina Petrovna Khrushchev, 59, returned to Washington, agreed at last to hold a VIP-sized press conference ("not customary in my country") for eager newswomen. Self-possessed and pleasant, Nina Petrovna made a big hit, even got a laugh when in careful English she kidded Jinx Falkenburg (who was present as Pat Nixon's guest) about her beehive-shaped hat: "You look like a Ukrainian bride, no?" With the promise that "I will give you some bits of information you desire," Mrs. Khrushchev laid...
...Sept. 23 The VIP (NBC, 10:30-11 p.m.).* Mr. K. visits the Garst farm at Coon Rapids, Iowa. TV cameras will be sighting in from every angle, hopeful of shooting some well-cured country ham. They will be keeping the vigil all week, at all hours, on all networks...
...unexpectedly at Moscow Airport to inspect the two Boeing 707 jets waiting to take the Nixon party on to Warsaw. Though dissatisfied with the highball proffered him-"You Americans spoil whisky. There's more ice than whisky in this"-Khrushchev was visibly impressed with Nixon's VIP-eouipped 707, and jokingly invited crack Russian Aircraft Designer Andrei Tupolev, standing near by, to "try to steal" some of the ideas. "It's a very well-made plane," he said...
Principal offshoot of the Red propaganda missions has been an upsurge in visits behind the Bamboo Curtain by Latin Americans. Last year 37 delegations, most of them going through Russia first, got the VIP tour; so far this year, more than 40 have entered China. By and large, they have found the going good-and said so. Colombia's Congressman Horacio Rodriguez Plata climaxed a Peking banquet by praising China's "defense of peace." Rasped Chile's former Minister of the Interior Guillermo del Pedregal to Peking University students: "U.S. imperialism is our common archenemy...
...booming state of California, Democratic Traveling Man John Fitzgerald Kennedy discovered last week, is a political hotel where beds are soft and the rates are right, but the manager doubles as house detective. Ranging from Sacramento to Los Angeles on a three-day visit, Presidential Hopeful Kennedy got such VIP honors as breakfast with Governor Edmund G. Brown and an invitation to address the legislature. But wherever Kennedy wandered, stern-eyed Detective Brown watched lest Kennedy set up an organization to slip into his valise any of California's convention votes. Reason: "Pat" Brown himself has developed high ambitions...