Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past Berlin crises, examined every possible way the Soviets or their East German satellites could put pressure on the city. Last week, before the National Security Council, he made his still-secret report. Acheson is convinced that a surrender in Berlin means the surrender of Europe, believes that Khrushchev really does doubt the U.S. will use its nuclear deterrent. Thus, the U.S. must go to the very edge of war, and be willing to go beyond, to convince the Soviet Premier that the U.S. will live up to its commitments...
...Compared Khrushchev, who recently claimed that the Soviet Union would outproduce the U.S. by 1970, to "the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin" before the prey is caught. "This tiger," said Kennedy, in a punning reference to Washington's nickname for him, "has other ideas." Putting aside his campaign complaints that the U.S. could not afford a growth rate slower than Russia's, the President argued that if both countries' present rates are maintained (3½% for the U.S., 6% for the Soviet Union), then "Soviet...
...bring back one division from Algeria. Others will follow." De Gaulle was determined to disentangle France quickly from Algeria. "The affair must be settled before the end of the year," he rumbled, because "after that, we must concern ourselves with Europe." He obviously had an eye on whatever crisis Khrushchev was hatching. Later in the week it was announced that a squadron of 72 jets will return to France from Algeria this month, to be followed by two armored divisions...
Manhattan now seems to appall more often than it pleases. Tourists, who gobble up goods at Macy's, profess to find the city cold and overwhelming. On the West Coast foreigners prefer Disneyland to Hollywood. "You really should have let Khrushchev go to Disneyland," said one Scot. "He probably would still be there if you had." Another great Russian favorite is the tomb of Rudolph Valentino. Still high on every foreigner's list: the Grand Canyon, Niagara Falls, and the elaborate curlicue highway system. For the sociologically minded, Negro districts are a must. One tourist guide...
America's grandchildren, says Khrushchev, will live under socialism. Professor William Appleman Williams of the University of Wisconsin can hardly wait-although socialism to him has a different meaning than to the Soviet boss. After a long and transparently loaded survey of U.S. history, his book asks a final question in academic gobbledygook: Is the nation really forced into a choice between "government by a syndicalist oligarchy relying on expansion" (roughly, the U.S. Progressive-New Deal movement) and "government by a class-conscious industrial gentry" (paternalistic capitalism)? Historian Williams' answer: There is a third possibility...