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...shakeup, a famous Old Bolshevik faded away. Pleading ill health, Marshal Kliment Voroshilov, 79, resigned as head of state at the Supreme Soviet's closing session. Premier Khrushchev praised and decorated Stalin's old companion-in-arms, then kissed him on both cheeks. But the aged President had been on the wrong side of the 1957 leadership fight, and Khrushchev had not forgotten...
...Road. So many top Kremlin residents are globetrotting these days, that it might be asked who is home minding the store. Mikoyan has been to Cuba; Voroshilov, Kozlov and Mme. Furtseva were just back from India; Gromyko was among the five planeloads of Russians traveling with Khrushchev. Perhaps they all merely wanted to escape the Russian winter. But Khrushchev had another purpose in mind on this trip-to try to revive Communism's slipping popularity in Southeast Asia...
...Nehru hastened to add, the fight with Kerala's Reds should not be confused with India's policy of friendly relations with Communist nations. To prove his point, he flew straight back to New Delhi to greet with smiles President Kliment Voroshilov and a large Soviet group arriving for a good-will tour. "Hindi Russi bhai bhai [Indians and Russians are brothers]," cried Voroshilov at the airport, and Nehru gaily clutched the arm of the stalwart lady standing beside him, Mrs. Ekaterina Furtseva, member of the Soviet Communist Party's Presidium. Nehru had worked hard to stir...
...Italy's Cabinet approved Gronchi's mission to Moscow in January, but also unanimously agreed that any exchange of visits should be limited to "heads of state, to avoid the possibility that Khrushchev could reciprocate by coming to Italy." Russia's aging figurehead. President Kliment Voroshilov, might be acceptable in the Holy City, but not Khrushchev. Reason: many Italians fear the impact of Khrushchev on a land with the biggest Communist party outside the Iron Curtain...
...begged off, saying his sister had tried to teach him to dance long ago, but "my legs just wouldn't move properly." The music was rather slow and dignified, the polkas, waltzes and 19th century Russian ballroom dances that the Czar's court once favored. President Kliment Voroshilov forgot his 78 years to sail off across the floor with Ekaterina Furtseva, the only woman member of the ruling Presidium. Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan flashed gaily around with one commissar's wife after another. It was a long way from the barricades...