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Despite the red ink, nobody believes that the Social Security system is going broke, since ultimately it is backed by the credit of the U.S. and the taxing power of Congress. But too much has been attempted too fast. Politicos of both parties have long been locked in a headlong competition to win votes by spreading Social Security coverage. Example: this month checks are going out to some 275,000 disabled persons over...
...Khrushchev has to peddle is optimism-Russia need not fear enemies, because it can beat them; it will overtake capitalism's production achievements, and then-as he told the capitalists a few weeks ago-"we will bury you." His ignorance of capitalism comes from Marxist lore; his own headlong ideas for solving agriculture crises the "easy way" have often flopped. He himself acknowledges that the Russian economic experts-at whom he always jeers-are agreed that his plans for equaling the U.S. in food production in a couple of seasons are impossible. His brother Stalinists-Malenkov, Molotov and Kaganovich...
...Path to Power. Nikita Khrushchev, in appearance a man of headlong exuberance, had waited 51 months to make his coup. When it came, it was as unexpected and as ruthless as anything Stalin had done. But there was a world of difference in Khrushchev's approach to power. Whereas Stalin, utterly contemptuous of party or world opinion, had purged the army and party structure wide and deep, Khrushchev had gone to great lengths to establish support among the party rank and file, particularly in the provinces, and to make himself a popular figure with peasants and workers...
...this point Malenkov may have made common cause with those old Stalinists, Molotov and Kaganovich, neither of whom Malenkov normally would have chosen as allies. They did not like Khrushchev's plan either, and together the three were able momentarily to check Khrushchev's headlong pursuit of power-partly because Khrushchev was also embarrassed by the Hungarian revolt then raging. At the Central Committee meeting last December, Khrushchev's industrial plans were considerably amended. Deputy Premier Saburov, who was State Planner at that time, was replaced by Deputy Premier Pervukhin, but both apparently obstructed Khrushchev...
...experimenting with graduated extension of the franchise so that the outnumbered whites can maintain their dominance. Paced by the British, with the frightening memory of yesterday's Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya to spur them on, the white masters in the remaining territories of Middle Africa are plunging headlong into an uncertain future, making concessions usually a step behind the demands-and sometimes a step ahead of the capacity-of their once submissive but now impatient peoples...