Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just before her news conference, Mrs. Khrushchev had been honor guest at a lunch at a private club, with Pat Nixon the official hostess. Said Nina of American women: "They're all eager to shake hands, all very kindhearted, very friendly toward us, very much like our Russian women are toward American women. Foreign ministers spend a lot of time arguing and trying to persuade each other. It could be easier for women to reach an agreement among themselves [but] after all. less depends...
...argument," said Nikita Khrushchev to San Francisco Mayor George Christopher, "that the truth is born." In San Francisco last week, the visiting boss of the Communist world tangled fiercely with some of the top bosses of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. in a private dinner debate that gave birth to little truth but made one of the classic give-and-takes...
...Khrushchev trip. Among those ranged against Khrushchev: United Auto Workers' Walter Reuther; International Union of Electrical Workers' James Carey; Papermakers and Paperworkers' Paul Phillips; Maritime Union's Joseph Curran; Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers' Orie Albert ("Jack") Knight; Brewery Workers' Karl Feller. Excerpts...
When Iowa Farmer Roswell Garst invited him to meet Nikita Khrushchev at his Coon Rapids farm, Stevenson accepted with pleasure. Under the protecting shade of a canvas canopy, the Soviet Premier and the two-time Democratic presidential candidate chatted amiably through lunch. Inevitably, their conversation turned from cold war to hot politics. Afterward, recounting it to the press and TV, Khrushchev turned to Stevenson. "Can I repeat that little conversation?" he asked. "It won't reveal any secret?" Replied Adlai, with a big grin: "You are at liberty to reveal my deepest secret." Said Khrushchev: "Mr. Stevenson said that...
...Give Him a Welcome." In their discussion of U.S.-Soviet problems, Stevenson thought he detected a softening of the Russian position. "Maybe it's not so much a matter of 'give,' " he said, "as of education." Khrushchev himself "has changed a little since I saw him last summer. I feel better about him now." Such informed talk could not help enhancing Stevenson's stature as an authority on foreign relations-a reputation every candidate in the 1960 race eagerly seeks...