Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Congratulations on making our beloved Pope John the Man of the Year. Of course we are prejudiced, but we also think that objectively you have shown good judgment. Nor do we think he minds sharing the honor with a man of another ilk, Khrushchev, in whom he finds some good and for whose people he prays and hopes for better things...
...Kennedy confidence is also plainly apparent in his recent conduct of foreign policy. He led the U.S. into confrontation with Khrushchev over Cuba without consulting the nation's Allies. His decision to cancel the Skybolt missile program, upon which Britain had based its nuclear hopes, was independently made and brusquely carried out. He thinks it is nonsense for U.S. Allies to want independent nuclear forces, although he has not yet convinced-if that is the word-France's Charles de Gaulle of this...
...heading past its fail-safe point toward Moscow! Something horrible has gone wrong! A little electronic device in one of the U.S.'s billion-dollar, foolproof, fail-safe machines is on the fritz. Thermonuclear war is about to start by mistake. The President of the U.S. calls Khrushchev on the hot line to Moscow. To convince Khrush that the U.S. intended no aggressive action, he promises to order New York City obliterated, tit for tat. Khrush is agreeable. Moscow goes boom. New York goes boom-and with it the President's lovely wife, who happens to be visiting...
...become a momentous family feud that threatens to split the world Communist movement. Last week the rift was there for all to see, laid out in plain words in Mao Tse-tung's Red Flag and People's Daily, followed by a paragraph-by-paragraph retort in Khrushchev's Pravda...
...Kremlin reception, Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev, 68, was presented with a gift designed by the members of the British correspondents' poker club in Moscow: a London-tailored tie of midnight-blue, decorated with golden cupolas symbolically inset with crossed sickles and quills. Nikita did not miss the point, added a touché of his own. "I am delighted," he said, "and I promise to wear it at my next press conference." His last press conference for Western newsmen: July...