Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Senator Fulbright feels the U.S. is compelled to recognize the Communist regime in Cuba. This would stabilize Khrushchev's puppet, Castro, and by example give the same guarantee to Khrushchev for any other subverted nation...
During the 1962 Cuban missile showdown, Adams alerted some 100,000 men, readied 1,000 aircraft for takeoff, moved some 15,000 armored-division troops to staging areas. Nikita Khrushchev got the message...
...Nikita Khrushchev kept pushing his brand of consumer Communism. "We did not make a revolution so that we should live worse," he observed on the stump in Hungary. "Some people say, 'You already have one pair of trousers, and they cover everything trousers should.' To this I reply that trousers cover the sinful body, but that is not enough. Perhaps one pair of trousers suffices in the tropics. It doesn't in our country: something might freeze...
Back home, on the chilly banks of the Neva in Leningrad, plenty of bodies were uncovered as swarms of pale, fleshy Russians looked for a place in the thin spring sun, the very image of a people who want the better, freer-and more stylish-life Khrushchev promises. Sounding downright capitalistic, Izvestia launched a new plan to bring about this longed-for prosperity; it suggested putting a traditional Russian drink known as kvas on the world mar ket to compete with Coca-Cola...
...Culprit Among Us. Scarcely stopping for the kvas that refreshes, Khrushchev wound up his ten-day visit to Hungary by again and again hitting his main theme: that the primary aim of the Communist revolution is achieving a prosperous Communism without resorting to nuclear war. Nor would he delude himself as to the difficulties of meeting that goal. When a Hungarian agronomist boasted at having surpassed the U.S. in wheat yield, Khrushchev put him in his place. "Don't fool yourself," he said. "The United States is doing better. The student in socialist countries is often afraid to work...