Photo of the day From the Stripes archives
August
3, 2008
Red Grandy ©Stars and Stripes
Paris, May, 1960:
Having been given a large bouquet of flowers by children welcoming him to
Paris' Orly Field, Soviet Premier Nikita
Khrushchev was faced with the dilemma of what to
do with them. The solution? Quickly hand them off to Defense Minister Rodion
Y. Malinovsky, defender of Stalingrad, Hero of the
Soviet Union and former member of the Supreme Soviet.