Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Khrushchev around the exhibition again for a look at displays he had missed that morning. Khrushchev smilingly scoffed at an electronic household "console" that is supposed to enable housewives of tomorrow to run their appliances through remote control. A model pressed a button and a dishwasher scooted out of a cabinet and across the floor. At the press of another button, an automatic floor washer and polisher emerged from another cabinet and scurried about like a creature out of science fiction. "Don't you have a machine that puts food in your mouth and pushes it down?" asked Khrushchev...
...group left the "glass house" of the exhibition and passed a voting-booth arrangement where visitors can use American voting machines to choose their favorite display. Said Khrushchev coldly: "I have no interest in that." He ignored the models in the fashion show, brushed aside the RAMAC computer that automatically answers 4,000 questions about the U.S. "To shoot off rockets, we have computers," he said, "and they are just as complicated as this...
Toward the end of the tour, on the gravel walk leading to Khrushchev's limousine, his hosts had set up a table stocked with California champagne and white and red wines. Nixon chose red wine, Khrushchev white. "A good wine," he said. Then he raised his glass and proposed a toast: "To the elimination of all military bases on foreign lands." Milton Eisenhower, who had not quite heard the translation, almost drank but stopped the goblet at his lips. The smile stayed on Nixon's face, but he did not raise his glass. "I am for peace...
...Khrushchev: How can peace be assured when we are surrounded by military bases...
...Khrushchev drank to Nixon's toast. At that point a Russian waiter raised a glass and proposed "one hundred years to Premier Khrushchev...