Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...diplomatic reception in Moscow, then-Premier Khrushchev told the American Ambassador, Charles E. Bohlen '27, that he had heard "talk of liquidating NATO." Bohlen quickly answered, "No, there has been talk of strengthening NATO. You must recognize NATO as a fact of life. It exists...
When Bohlen left Moscow in 1957, Khrushchev said to him, "We like competent ambassadors who know how to give correct appraisals to their government." Premier Bulganin was a little less reserved. "We do not understand why they are taking you from us," he complained...
...survive and rebuild. The other and more unsettling possibility is that Russian scientists are on to a better defense system than the U.S. so far contemplates. U.S. military planners remain haunted by the frightening possibility that the Russians have actually developed a technique that will come up to Khrushchev's boast that a Russian rocket could "hit a fly" in outer space. Rumors have circulated in Washington about Russian "Xray defense" and "zap" effects of nuclear explosions far bigger than those involved in the Nike-X system-explosions that would effectively clear the skies of most...
...paper, with its message stenciled or printed for mass distribution. The third is the chuantan, or bill poster, each of which features a single, yard-high character. Enough pages strung together make poster headlines so large that even a simple acid message, such as "Liu Shao-chi is the Khrushchev of China," requires ten yards of wall space...
...Bela Fabian, 77, Hungarian patriot, a leader of Budapest's Jewish community and prewar member of Parliament who survived Auschwitz and then emigrated in 1948 to the U.S., where he spent his years staging bitter protests against the Communists, particularly during the 1956 Hungarian uprising and during Nikita Khrushchev's 1960 U.S. visit, when he led 2,000 marchers with placards reading: "Murderers belong in Sing Sing"; of a heart attack; in San Juan, Puerto Rico...