Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Adhesive Quality. It was a torn and tattered party, which was rent even further by the Tories' 1959 landslide. But when his leadership was challenged, Gaitskell met the test. To the ban-the-bombers, who threatened to take over the party, Gaitskell fumed: "Go tell Mr. Khrushchev to ban his bomb. Go and see what it's like to deal with Soviet tanks and Soviet police like the Hungarian people." Victory over the unilateralists finally made Gaitskell's power absolute, and in the next two years he set out to rally the party behind a unified policy...
...Checkpoint Charlie in West Berlin when suddenly a convoy of official cars raced up to the Wall from the Communist sector of the city. Out swarmed dozens of Russian security men around a familiar portly figure decked out in a black astrakhan cap and grey overcoat. It was Nikita Khrushchev all right, and he promptly proceeded to give one of his impromptu theatrical performances. Grinning broadly, he mugged for photographers, gaily waved a pudgy finger at the barbed wire and steel barrier, then ambled over for a chat with a busload of astonished Italian newsmen. Asking for "someone who speaks...
...leading up to another postponement of his dire Berlin threats. The "success" of the Wall in sealing the borders of the Soviet zone, declared Khrushchev, no longer made "the conclusion of a peace treaty the same problem as it was before Aug. 13." Everyone applauded enthusiastically-everyone, that is, except the little man in a grey-blue uniform who sat impassively among the delegates to the left of the rostrum. He was Wu Hsiu-chuan, Red China's delegate sent by Peking to register quiet disdain at Khrushchev's conduct in the latest chapter in the Sino-Soviet...
...Khrushchev did not so much as glance at Wu when, gesticulating, he demanded that the Red Chinese cool their "red-hot tempers," cease sneering at Moscow for its policy of coexistence with the West. Again he repeated his warning that the "imperialists" are no "paper tigers." The U.S., Nikita informed his gasping audience, has 40,000 atomic or nuclear warheads.† This, he cried, is more than enough. "During the first blow, 700-800 million people would die," cried the Russian Premier. "Dear Comrades, I'll tell you a secret. Our scientists have developed a 100-megaton bomb...
...First Bertrand Russell, 90, turtlenecked civil insurgent, resigned as president on the grounds that he had other things to do-things like writing a book about the peacemaker's role he believes he played in the Cuban and Sino-Indian crises, and keeping up his pen-palship with Khrushchev, Chou En-lai and Castro. Then Actress Vanessa Redgrave, 25, sidewalk-sitting daughter of Sir Michael Redgrave, resigned by mail. A Committee of One Hundred spokesman refused to talk about Vanessa's reason for bombing the bans: "I cannot say anything more than that it was a short letter...