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...back as his introductory report to the 20th Party Congress in 1956 (TIME, Feb. 27, 1956 et seq.), Khrushchev made passing derogatory references to Molotov's "contemptuous attitude" and to Malenkov's consumer-goods plan ("incorrigible boaster"). In his famous secret, weeping, emotional speech to the same body ten days later, in which he denounced Stalin as a "sickly suspicious," bloodthirsty tyrant, Khrushchev tried to take from Stalin even his chief glory as victor in war, and in doing so, told an anecdote which showed that Malenkov was close to Stalin's side during his most panicky...
Inevitably, some of the critics went beyond the bounds outlined by Chairman Mao in his now famous "secret" speeches (TIME, May 27 et seq.). Chu An Ping, editor of the Kwangming Daily, which speaks for Red China's eight tame "democratic" parties, had the temerity to suggest criticism of Mao himself: "People have raised many opinions against the junior monks, but no one has yet said anything about the old monks...
FAST TAX WRITE-OFF for Idaho Power Co.'s Hells Canyon Darn (TIME, April 15 et seq.) will be canceled if Congress passes bill by Oregon Congressman Charles O. Porter to wipe out all fast write-offs, except for new weapons, retroactive...
...especially from cancer and heart disease. With a total of 11,870 deaths among the men (ages 50 to 70 when the study began in 1952), Drs. E. Cuyler Hammond and Daniel Horn were able to go far beyond the findings they had earlier reported (TIME, July 5, 1954 et seq.). From a mountain of crosschecked statistics submitted to the A.M.A. last week, they concluded: 1) all smoking shortens life; 2) cigarette smoking is by far the worst offender, and the risk goes up with the amount smoked...
Especially startling was the finding that, although the increased death rate from lung cancer was the most dramatic (TIME, March 7, 1949 et seq.), smoking may cause a far greater loss of life by speeding up the process of heart disease-where a relatively modest increase in the mortality rate means many more deaths because the disease is so much commoner...