Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fledgling President of the U.S. was readying himself to fly off this week for conferences with 1) France's President Charles de Gaulle in Paris, 2) Russia's Premier Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna, and 3) Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in London. Within a week after his leavetaking, President John Kennedy plans to be back home-pretty quick work...
Indeed the President's first overseas quest for new understandings in the old cold war seemed to have growed like Topsy. First, it was to be a visit with De Gaulle. Then Khrushchev was added, and then Macmillan. Even as President Kennedy was packing his brief case, his trip was still arousing questions. Had he blunted the meaning of each of his three major confrontations by more or less tossing them together, rather than taking on De Gaulle, Khrushchev and Macmillan in reasonably separate order? Was it wise for him to meet with Khrushchev when recent events-some...
Plus & Minus. President Kennedy had plainly and publicly let it be known that his main aim was to size up Khrushchev, to take the Russian's personal measure as the U.S.'s mightiest cold war adversary. But the proposition carried with it the fact that Khrushchev at the same time would be taking measure of President Kennedy and, through...
...very real. Here also, crops were poor. The Soviet Union, which in 1960 exported 100 million bushels of grain to Eastern Europe, is now itself short of food. The spring planting lagged 2,000,000 acres behind last year, and meat production was down 13% in spite of Khrushchev's feverish speeches and Draconic firings early in the spring. In fact, the U.S.'s 21 million farm population in 1960 grows as much food as some 500 million Chinese, and 60% more than no million Russians...
...Russians, too, seemed to have a problem of discipline. To counter widespread thievery from state farms and other state-owned operations, the government reinstated the death penalty for counterfeiting and large-scale embezzlement of state property, including falsification of production figures, which Khrushchev has complained of loudly in recent months. Another law provided heavier penalties for idleness and illegal private-enterprising...