Kremlin Strongly Opposes West On Nuclear Disarmament Policy; Moscow Talks Near Completion The Associated Press

GENEVA, Feb. 26--The United States and Britain said today Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's rigid stand on nuclear disarmament has brought test ban talks here to the verge of collapse.

"Shouldn't we now be packing our bags?" demanded U.S. Delegate James J. Wadsworth of Semyon K. Tsarapkin, the Soviet negotiator.

Tsarapkin replied that the question of packing bags was up to the West but there need be no talk of failure if the West switched to a "more realistic attitude."

Both Wadsworth and Sir Michael Wright, the British delegate, concentrated on Khruschchev's Kremlin speech.

Macmillan Continues Talks

MOSCOW, Feb. 26--British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan had lunch and a long talk with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev on cold was issues today in an atmosphere that a British spokesman termed "fairly cool, calm and collected."

With relations strained by the public attack by Khrushchev on Western policies in his Kremlin speech Tuesday, they met at a country house near Moscow.

Griswold Meets Criticism

An attack on athletic scholarships by A. Whitney Griswold, president of Yale University drew sharp rebuttal today from a number of college athletic officials.

He criticized athletic scholarships as "one of the greatest educational swindles ever perpetrated on American youth."

Kermit Bud Laabs, comissioner of the Frontier Conference in the Southwest, bluntly opposed Griswold. "A swindle, my eye," he answered. "If athletic scholarships are a swindle why not use the same yardstick for measuring the value of scholarships awarded for other activities."