Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over Valya. Television commentators described her "cornflower blue eyes," and peasants showered her with bouquets. Overcome by her welcome, Valya broke into tears; it was the first time, Moscow assured the world, that anyone had seen her cry since she was a child. In a telephone conversation with Nikita Khrushchev, she admitted that she had bruised her nose in landing, said that the "people received me very cordially in the Russian manner with bread and salt." Foresightedly, she had brought along photographs of herself and passed them out to workers who greeted her, giving most of the pictures to women...
...Nikita Khrushchev had more reasons last week to wonder why he ever invited a Red Chinese delegation to Moscow. Twenty-five reasons, to be exact, all neatly numbered in a letter for convenient "point-by-point discussion" at the scheduled Sino-Soviet meeting next week. Mao Tse-tung's latest message to Nikita-the most vehement to date in the continuing quarrel-doomed the confrontation to failure before it began. Peking deliberately left the Kremlin no room for compromise. After years of discussion over whether the split was real, Western skeptics could no longer doubt that it was deep...
After Seagull joined Hawk, there were more messages. Said Khrushchev: "Dear Valentina Vladimirovna, cordial congratulations to the world's first woman cosmonaut on the wonderful flight through the expanses of the universe ... A happy journey to you! We will be extremely glad to meet you on Soviet soil...
Smiling at the TV camera in her capsule-some viewers described her as resembling a tougher-looking Ingrid Bergman-Valentina thanked Khrushchev for his "fatherly concern," assured everyone that she was feeling fine...
Premier-designate Aldo Moro's Christian Democrats, having learned painfully from the April results that it does not pay to peddle anti-Communism softly, waged a tough campaign against "Khrushchev's false smiles." They could also point to Sicily's significant economic progress under their administration...