Few men on earth had less in common: Khrushchev was a short, pudgy, uneducated Russian peasant who'd climbed to power by tenacity and brutality; Lodge was a tall, thin, Harvard -
educated Boston Brahmin who'd been born into America's aristocracy, scion of one of the
families immortalized in an old New England toast: Here's to good old Boston,
Home of the bean and the cod, Where the Lowells speak
only to the Cabots And the Cabots speak
only to God.