Word: best
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...subway, take a hand with a pneumatic drill, and talk with the lads in the unprintable language for which, even in the Kremlin, he is famous. The palace courtiers dubbed him "Comrade Lavatory Lover" because Nikita not only insisted on equipping the Moscow metro with the world's best subway toilets, but often broke in rudely on conference speakers: "All right, all right, comrade, you have achieved this and that, but what about lavatories in your factory? How many lavatories? What is their cultural state...
...Nikita himself does not yet have absolute power, is still best described as chairman of the gang. And to control such a gang, as Nikita well knows, takes far more political skill than Stalin ever required. Khrushchev's Russia needs its thinking men?its scientists and its technicians?and Khrushchev must allow them to think. They demand respect. They can do without Khrushchev, but Khrushchev cannot do without them. Within the party there may be younger men who will overtake him when he slows or stumbles. But in 1957, Nikita Khrushchev outran, outfoxed, outbragged, outworked and out-drank them...
...through the velvety lawns and underbrush of the 7,000-acre estate to carry the cables needed for TV cameras. The Queen herself watched, over and over, a training film starring bright-eyed, pretty Sylvia Peters, one of BBC's ablest announcers, in which Sylvia demonstrated the five best ways of making a TV speech: 1) from memory, 2) from notes, 3) using a Teleprompter, 4) combining notes and Teleprompter, 5) reading it in its entirety. The Queen selected No. 4. She wrote the speech herself, and her draft was care fully edited to eliminate clich...
Late Word. Ever since Sukarno touched off his expel-the-Dutch campaign, Indonesian moderates had been waiting hopefully for some word from quiet, capable Dr. Mohammed Hatta. First elected Vice President in 1945, Hatta is Indonesia's best-known politician after Sukarno, is regarded by many Indonesians as a much more stable and responsible statesman. He resigned 13 months ago in disgust at the President's insistence on including Communists in his Cabinet, has since rejected all overtures to come back into the government...
...Washington. State Department officials diplomatically said that the Indonesian inquiries were still under discussion. This was another way of saying that the U.S. would want to take a careful look before selling arms to a nation whose best-organized political party is the Communists and whose avowed antagonist is The Netherlands, a U.S. ally in NATO...