Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...General Clay is now with Lehman Brothers," said Avco Board Chairman Kendrick R. Wilson Jr. "He's an army officer who made good," added Funston. Khrushchev raised a pious eyebrow: "You have 190 million people. Why don't they all make good? Certainly they have not trespassed against...
Moving from foreign trade to foreign relations, Khrushchev pulled out all the "peaceful coexistence" clichés, lost his aplomb (but not his temper) only when Chauncey W. Cook, president of General Foods, asked "Why is it necessary to build a Berlin Wall and shoot people down if they try to get over...
...state frontier is a state frontier," Khrushchev replied. "And every state, whenever its borders are violated, shoots the violators...
...your country, children are killed in a church for the sole reason that their color is different," K. snapped back. Before anyone could make the obvious retort-that murder at the Wall, unlike murder in Birmingham, is an act of the government-Khrushchev was off on something else...
...Cheat. Loosening up as it progressed, the interview closed in an exchange of banter, with Khrushchev maintaining that capitalists controlled the U.S. Government. "Who was McNamara before he became Secretary of Defense?" asked Nikita. "He was president of Ford Motor," answered G. Keith Funston, president of the New York Stock Exchange. "He's one out of ten in the Cabinet. Why not talk about the others...