Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contemporary history. John F. Kennedy learned at the Bay of Pigs that timid application of power can be worse than no exercise of power at all. Putting his experience into practice, he acted like a different leader during the Cuban missile crisis. He made it bluntly clear to Nikita Khrushchev that the U.S. was prepared to invade and overrun Cuba if the Russians did not remove their missiles. The result was a textbook settlement for a nuclear confrontation: both sides could claim a victory of a sort. The U.S. had erased a Communist threat, and Khrushchev could tell his people...
...power is still considerable, and the responsibility to use it wisely has, if anything, grown over the years. The challenge is to find the right way to apply it to each situation. Threats may work against a probable enemy, as with Khrushchev in Cuba, but even angry coercion may not move a friend. Thus British ships still carry cargo for Hanoi...
Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin is a mild-appearing man who, along with present Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, helped overthrow Khrushchev in 1964 because, among other reasons, he was acutely embarrassed by Nicky's high jinks and rocket rattling. An efficient bureaucrat, Kosygin not only involves himself deeply in the Soviet Union's domestic affairs but also directs his country's foreign policy. This week, in an interview in LIFE, he proved that he can be just as tough and unbending as any of his predecessors. Ranging over a wide variety of subjects in a more or less...
...match in intensity and fury, or in the significance of their results, the battle of Stalingrad in 1942-43, when the long thrust of Hitler's armies into Russia was halted and reversed. This week the 720,000 people of Volgograd-as Stalingrad was renamed in 1961 during Khrushchev's destalinization campaign-mark the 25th anniversary of the end of the furious battle on the Volga's west bank, in which about 300,000 soldiers and civilians lost their lives. For its commemoration, the city has a statue of a bosomy Mother Russia waving a sword, which...
...When trouble threatens, Rap is rushed to the spot to deliver inflammatory harangues. Then the Senate can blame the riots on "outside agitators" and avoid spending any money on the slums. A year ago, wrote Baker, a theater script had been rejected as too far-out because it had Khrushchev's nephew defecting to the U.S. and joining the John Birch Society. But life outdid art. "Stalin's daughter defected to the U.S. and joined Sam Levenson and Elia Kazan in the society of bestsellers...