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...films of the ex-Premier during and prior to his reign. The remaining third is made up of taped interviews and movies-mostly in color -made recently on his seven-acre dacha, Petrovo Dalneye, on the Moskva River, 18 miles west of Moscow. U.S. viewers will see Nikita Sergeevich building small bonfires (a hobby), romping with his grandchildren, playing with his pet Alsatian, munching grapes on the front porch, peering through binoculars over walls that separate him from the rest of the world, dining with his wife Nina. "He looks," said NBC News Vice President Donald V. Meaney, "like...
...future histories, Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev may be dismissed as a mere transitional figure. But in Russia's painful move from a malevolent monolith to a more responsible member of world society, he was essential. His Cold War contemporaries described him variously as a Red Hitler and a Jolly St. Nik, a shoe banger and a shrewd geo-politician. Before his ouster in 1964 by less colorful but more pragmatic men, Khrushchev had justified at least some of those descriptions: he denounced Stalin and initiated the cultural thaw in Soviet life; he built the Berlin Wall and wisely backed down...
Among the variety of new Russian jet liners they saw on display at Le Bourget, U.S. experts were most impressed by the potential of the YAK-40, a 23-passenger, tri-jet transport designed by Aeronautical Engineer Sergei Yakovlev, 27, son of famed Soviet Aircraft Designer Alexsandr Sergeevich Yakovlev, for whom earlier YAK planes were named. What he had in mind, said Yakovlev, was a replacement for the famous old DC-3. Yakovlev's workhorse jet has thick, high-lift wings, big flaps, a relatively slow cruising speed of 450 m.p.h. and fat, soft tires-enabling it to land...
...casting his meaningless vote for his Moscow district's unopposed candidate for the Supreme Soviet, or Parliament. The candidate's name: Alexei Kosygin, the fellow who, with Leonid Brezhnev, put Khrushchev out of a job two years ago. It was a rare public appearance for Nikita Sergeevich, and a crowd of nearly 1,000 collected outside the school to call "Good day!" and "Long life!" Why such a crowd? reporters asked. "You know," he explained, as he walked back to his modest apartment two blocks away, "I worked in Moscow a long time...
...last time a pair of Soviet cosmonauts went whirling around the world, they spent a lot of time on the radio-telephone exchanging compliments with "dear Nikita Sergeevich...