Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-13
Mrs. Khrushchev to Get
Womdn's View of the u. S.
by FRANCES LEVINE
Associated Press writer

Grandmotherly looking Mrs.
Nina Khrushchev will get q
woman's angle view Of the
United States that probably
will include q West Coast
supermarket and q Broadway
musical.
It is the first trip to q
Western country for gray
haired Mrs. Khrushchev, who
win accompany her Soviet
Premier husband on a l2-day
visit across the United States
starting Tuesday.
The Russian first lady is 5
feet 2 inches tall, about SO
years old, plump and pleasant
looking. Mrs. Khrushchev is
described as q teacher with q
more than usual interest in
American history.
She Is said to have taught
herself English and now re-
portedly speaks we'll enough
to carry on a conversation.
United States diplomats
think she has some influence
over her husband and her
impressions could have added
significance because Of this.
If her trip Is anything like
the schedule arranged in
Russia recently for Vice Pres
ident Richard M. Nixon's wife
Pat it will probably take her
to hospitals, schools and q
department store as well.
A department store visit
would provide her an inter-
esting comparison with Rus
sia's famous establishment,
GUMS. OF Moscow's Red
Square.
Supermarket
Officials repeatedly have
decided to show Mrs. Khru-
shchev q supermarket, either
in Los Angeles or San Fran
cisco. instead Of markets
near Washington, which 9TH
er top Soviet officials have
seen.
And it looks as though she
may see the long-run musi-
cal. MY Fair Lady"
Unlike this country. Rus
sia keeps o closed curtain
around the private lives Of
its leaderS. So when it comes
to getting information about
Premier Khrushchev's fam
lily there's plenty Of confu-
sion.
Since the Soviet Premier
announced he was bringing
members Of his family along,
the spotlight has been turned
on them full blast.
Besides his wife, he'll have
with him his 24-year-old son,
Sergi, an electrical engineer.
and daughters Rada, in her
40s. q chemist and wife of
Kiev Opera House Director
Victor p. Gontar, and Julia,
about 80. wife Of Mr.. Alexei
I. Adzhubei, recently named
editor of the official state
newspaper Izvesta. He Is COM
ing here as q member Of the
oflcial party. Julia, who stud
led biology and journalism.
Is now on the editorial board
Of q Moscow scientific jour-
nal.
In recent years. Mrs.
Khrushchev. hair pulled
tightly back In q bun and
usually wearing dark dresses,
has been appearing more and
more at official Kremlin re-
ceptions.
Americans. including Mrs.
Eleanor Roosevelt, Motion
Picture Association President
Eric Johnston and Iowa corn
grower, Roswell Garst, have
said they found Mrs. Khru-
shchev q gracious hostess |
when they were guests at the |
Khrushchev summer home on |
the Black Sea.
English or Russian
Reports that Mrs. Khru-
shchev speaks English de.
light her American hostess,
Mrs. Henry Cabot Lodge,
wife Of the United States
Ambassador to the United
Nations, who viii make the
tour.
Tall. blond. Mrs. Lodge,
daughter Of a prominent
Boston physician, is fluent
In the usual diplomatic Ian
guage-French-but doesn't
speak Russian. And she has
never been to Russia.
Just in case Mrs. Khru-
shchev boys down on Eng
lsh, they'll have an inter-
prefer to fall back on.
The Soviet Embassy has
added a political tinge to
Mrs. Khrushchev's back
ground, reporting that she
Is o longtime member Of the
Communist Party who par
ticipated in the Russian
civil war.
She is said to come from
the same district of Kursk,