Nikita Khrushchev clumped off the Baltika on his arrival in the United States, he looked at the crowd waiting on the dingy East River pier, saw a somewhat camouflaged familiar face and, with a steely grin, stroked his chin. This was the Soviet boss's wordless greeting to a man he recognized as a member of the press corps, TIME'S Moscow Bureau Chief Edmund Stevens. Since Khrushchev had last seen him, Stevens, while on vacation. had grown a rusty beard. Later, in a bantering mood, Khrushchev likened the beard to Pushkin's, and predicted that Stevens...
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