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Morning after the elections in which the Soviet dictatorship of the proletariat ratified its contempt for the democratic process of free popular choice, the three Americans appointed by the State Department to observe the show went off to an interview with Nikita Khrushchev at the Communist Party's stucco-front headquarters near the Kremlin. The Americans-Cyril E. Black, professor of modern European history at Princeton University; Richard Scammon, director of elections research for Washington's Governmental Affairs Institute; and Hedley Donovan, managing editor of FORTUNE-were official guests of the Soviet government, repaying a visit that...

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