The Russians had departed, and the world was busy examining Britain to see what damage had been done.
"Ten days that failed to shake the world," the London Economist called it. The visitors had not made off with the heart of the British common man—something Khrushchev had badly wanted to take home as another trophy from his diplomatic safaris. Through most of the visit, B. & K. remained remote and formidable figures in big black cars behind a 21-motorcycle escort (a sight hitherto unknown in Britain), but they soon sensed in the public's cool reserve...
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