Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Three months ago, as Nikita Khrushchev sailed toward U.S. shores, he was accompanied by Russian vessels specifically equipped to track space hardware. Sharpening the mystery of the ships' mission were persistent rumors, encouraged by the Russians, that a man would be fired into space soon and brought 'back. It would make a grand accompaniment to Khrushchev's arrival in Manhattan...
...expectations were never fulfilled. Then on Oct. 25 came a curiously noncommittal announcement that Khrushchev's hand-picked chief of Soviet Missile Forces. Marshal Mitrofan I. Nedelin, had died in an "airplane accident." Last week two reports from Europe offered different versions of what had really happened. ^ The first report, sent from Switzerland by the Chicago Daily News's veteran correspondent Paul Ghali and attributed to "foreign diplomats in Bern," said the Russians had actually rocketed a manned capsule into space sometime in early October. "But the Russian scientists on the ground were unable to separate the container...
Five weeks ago Nikita Khrushchev convened in Moscow an ecumenical council of the Communist hierarchs of 81 nations to deal with the threat of schism raised by efforts of the brash Peking Communist school to put itself forward as the true exemplar of Communist faith and practice. Last week the resulting creed finally was published in Moscow and in Communist papers around the world...
What I cannot accept, however, is his account of Russians assuring me that they had no hostile images of the United States and that they objected to Khrushchev's demolition of the Summit. What I did say was that during my short visit to the Soviet Union last summer I was struck by the absence of hostility to myself and my traveling companions as Americans--despite the fact that we reached Russia just after the Powers trial, when popular feeling against our country might be presumed to be at its height. I had no such conversations as Mr. Smith reports...
...States in the same light as revolts in Iran . . . The Southerners could buy our automobiles and we would buy their textiles. Barley would go for bourbon and books for petroleum. The U.S. would undoubtedly do the handsome thing by sponsoring the C.S.A. for entry into the United Nations, where Khrushchev & Co. would soon learn a thing or two about the fine art of obstructionism...