THE NATION: K. Goes Home

"Goodbye—good luck—friends," said Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev in fresh-minted English this week as he peered out of TV screens on his last day in the U.S. Typically, he had just turned in a doctrinaire defense of Communism as "the ' most humane and truly just system," and attacked U.S.-style capitalism as immoral because, so he said, the few become rich by the labors of the many, "counter to men's conscience." But Nikita Khrushchev's farewell address, like his farewell press conference and his approach to the U.S. in the final days, was free of...