COMMUNISTS: The Winter-Garden Summit

Along the snow-banked road to Moscow's Vnukovo airport, the well-padded commissars of the Kremlin whizzed back and forth last week like commuting suburbanites. Day after day they rode in portly twosomes to welcome the Communist bosses of ten satellites. One afternoon, a round dozen of them wheeled out, led by rotund Nikita Khrushchev, to greet the guest of honor, China's lean, scowling chief of state, Liu Shao-chi, 62. The presence of Liu and other rulers of Communist states barred from the U.N., as well as Communist Party chieftains from all around the world, made Moscow's gathering the biggest assemblage...

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