Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scheduled for conferences within a few hours with Tough Customer de Gaulle (friendly rival) and Khrushchev (rival), Kennedy still remembered to notice the new hairdo and provide an object lesson for American husbands...
Before his flight to Vienna, President John Kennedy made it clear to the U.S. that his meeting with Nikita Khrushchev was to be a size-up instead of a summit, a time for appraisal rather than for decisions. The President was dead right. When he flew back to Washington last week-bone-tired and pained by a back injury-Kennedy faced the same old and annoying cold war conflicts. Nothing seemed to have changed...
Returning to Moscow while John Kennedy jetted to Washington, Khrushchev appeared in bubbling good spirits. It seemed unlikely that Khrushchev would push the U.S. into any overt action by deliberate international provocation. Yet there was also little chance that he would ease tension by seeking a viable solution for two of the U.S.'s most difficult problems: Berlin and Laos...
...term, to stay in Washington as much as possible." said the New York Times a little sternly. "He embarks on a crucial journey to confer with the leaders of our two principal allies. President de Gaulle and Prime Minister Macmillan. and to confront our principal adversary. Premier Khrushchev. There is a compulsion on prominent persons, as on almost all the rest of us. to arise and go. Geneva, Saigon, Paris, London, Buenos Aires, Havana, in time the fogs of Venus and the mountains of the moon. These can be reached, now or soon. But what do we do when...
Died. Nicholas W. Orloff, 66, Russian prince and army officer who fled the Bolsheviks in 1920, became a U.S. citizen, served as chief United Nations interpreter until 1955, was the deft unofficial translator for the American Broadcasting Co. during Nikita Khrushchev's 1959 U.S. tour; of a heart attack; in Oyster...