Word: fidelity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...press corps, TIME'S Moscow Bureau Chief Edmund Stevens. Since Khrushchev had last seen him, Stevens, while on vacation. had grown a rusty beard. Later, in a bantering mood, Khrushchev likened the beard to Pushkin's, and predicted that Stevens would never grow a beard like Fidel Castro...
Except for his bearded friend Fidel Castro, most of the rest of the world leaders, including the representatives of the unfamiliar new nations, had a feeling for parliamentary behavior and a preference for orderly persuasion. The contrast made Khrushchev all the more conspicuous. President Eisenhower, back in New York for a series of meetings with foreign delegates, stayed away from the U.N. itself but had a quiet talk with Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, whose eventoned eloquence in the General Assembly was the week's best performance. The neutralist leaders, led by India's Jawaharlal Nehru...
...Cheerleader. A few hours later Khrushchev resumed his cheerleading at an attraction more to his liking: a 4½-hour anti-U.S. farrago by Cuba's Fidel Castro. Castro made the first of several hundred misstatements of fact when he declared royally that "we" will "endeavor to be brief." As he speechified on and on, more than half his audience, notably including India's Jawaharlal Nehru, gradually drifted out of the Assembly. But Khrushchev with grim determination hung on, saluted savage Castro blasts at the U.S. by raising his right arm. Each time...
...Fidel Castro last week placed his country on the Soviet side. He did it in the most public manner possible: in a speech at the U.N. General Assembly in Manhattan, and in subsequent public utterances...
Just like Lincoln. At midweek Castro's spear-bearers shouldered Fidel's special refrigerator, two cages of white mice, a bunch of 3-ft.-tall stuffed toy animals bought in Manhattan, and prepared for a triumphal return to Cuba, where every TV station had carried the U.N. speech live, via the Straits of Florida over-the-horizon transmission link, which costs $2,200 hourly. Just before leaving, Castro received a gift package, later opened by the police bomb squad. The contents: ten lbs. of flea powder...