Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hardship at all, Republican Incumbent George Christopher, 52, walloped Democratic Tax Assessor Russell Wolden, 49, by more than 50,000 votes. Greek-born George Christopher, who showed his abilities during his first term and enhanced his position when he rang in a warm San Francisco welcome for Nikita Khrushchev (cabled Khrushchev: "Had I been a citizen of your beautiful city, I would undoubtedly have voted for you"), had the city in his pocket virtually from the beginning, even though registration is overwhelmingly Democratic. In his wild-swinging campaign, Opponent Wolden accused Christopher's administration of permitting San Francisco...
...itself not only against its opponents' existing weapons but also against every Flash Gordon device that the opposition might conceivably develop. Every nation is thus alarmed by the ballooning of arms costs. Harold Macmillan, returning last winter from Moscow, found arms budgets the chief subject on Khrushchev's mind...
...there is to be some give on the subject, it is not likely to take the form of the grandiose gesture made at the U.N. by Khrushchev. It will come as heads of state re-examine positions on nuclear tests so laboriously discussed at Geneva-the possibility of agreeing on an international inspection system that could lead to the reduction of armaments, step by conditional step. Even such arms control (as opposed to disarmament) will not be ensured in a single summit session...
...Khrushchev has attempted to counteract the enormous imbalance between heavy industry and consumption that marked the Stalin regime. Bergson feels, however, that Khrushchev's goal of surpassing United States consumption cannot be realized...
...field of heavy industry, always emphasized in Russia, Khrushchev has continued the trend started in the Stalin regime. Bergson notes that Soviet steel production burgeoned from 4.3 million tons in 1928 to 38.1 tons in 1954. Under the present government, 54.9 million tons of steel were produced last year...