Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prison or disgrace all Soviet biologists who defended the orthodox axiom that basic traits are transmitted by genes that cannot be changed by training the parent organism. Lysenko's dictatorship died with Stalin. But now Lysenko is back in bloom, not as a declaimer of dogmas, since Nikita Khrushchev does not care much about that, but as a preacher of the kind of husbandry that Khrushchev hopes will whip up the country's badly lagging farm output...
...still brings the buoyant spirit of religious revival to the Khrushchevian task of boosting yields. Sunburnt and dust-covered, he travels the vast land, bawls orders to the peasants in his hoarse, high-pitched voice: "Keep the weeds down." "Put on more manure." "Thin out in case of drought." Khrushchev, another peasant's son from the Ukraine, understands and appreciates that kind of talk. Lysenko tells virgin land pioneers not to plow their land in the fall but to plant their grain amidst the snow-catching stubble, advises Volga farmers to increase their crop by cutting their seed potatoes...
...chickens into Buff Orpington hens, trying to turn wheat into rye. He complains righteously against Science Academy President Aleksandr Nesmeyanov (TIME cover, June 2, 1958) for criticizing his experiments. Says he pointedly: "I am infinitely happy that my modest work is highly prized by the party government and Nikita Khrushchev in person...
Slow Readers. Khrushchev has praised a thrifty mixture of manure and factory fertilizers devised by Lysenko as "proved in the field." Most recently, in a gamble to achieve higher production through shortcuts, Khrushchev has backed a plan to send out hybrid bulls bred at "Lysenko's farm" to boost Soviet butterfat production. At last month's Central Committee meeting on agriculture, Lysenko told how he tried to get the Agriculture Ministry to act on his plan. Khrushchev interrupted: "What did the Ministry reply to you?" Lysenko: "Recently, in January, they signed an order." "And when did you write...
During their temporary alliance, Kanza said, the Congolese President and Premier sent a joint telegram to Nikita S. Khrushchev stating that the Congo might soon have to request Soviet aid in driving out Belgian troops. After September 5 of last year, when Lumumba and his friends (excepting Kanza himself) were thrown out of office, Kasavubu published the telegram but left his name...