World: A Hard Day's Night

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Khrushchev last week was apparently still in Moscow, by best report living in a four-room apartment above the Udarnik Cinema, on Serafimovich Street No. 2, within view of the Kremlin. Some Westerners reported seeing him riding in a limousine; others claimed they saw him walking, sober-faced and sullen, in the environs of Moscow University. All traces of his rule were being removed. When U.S. Ambassador Foy D. Kohler called on new Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin, he noted that Nikita Khrushchev's plastic toy cars were gone, along with his familiar paperweight, a lump of ore as crude and solid as its owner.

*The 175 voting members of the Central Committee elect the party Presidium-known as the Politburo until 1952, when that name became too odious. The party Presidium is not to be confused with the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, Russia's ineffectual parliament, now headed by President Anastas Mikoyan.

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