World: Candidate with Three Suits

Of course, he got 90 minutes of free, prime time on TV, and was able to meet the folks in the Kremlin's mighty marble Palace of the Congresses. Otherwise, Nikita Khrushchev's stump speech to his constituents from Moscow's Kalinin district sounded as if he had to run for dear life to get re-elected to the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Republic this week.

Naturally, Nikita claimed success for his own foreign policy. The Communists were winning the cold war. and all that talk about trouble with the Chinese was an "illusion." (Same day, Peking launched...

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