Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...timing of the Red Dragon's nuclear detonation seemed like a gruesome version of Chinese firecrackers to celebrate Khrushchev's removal from leadership of the Red Bear...
...Khrushchev's resignation brought to my mind your April 24, 1964, cover on Lenin. The story, as you recall, said that the Order of Lenin was pinned on Khrushchev by President Leonid Brezhnev, and that Khrushchev's colleagues saluted him as a "militant leader, a fiery tribune, giving his burning energy in the service of the cause of Communism." Sic transit gloria...
...government has been unable to evolve a satisfactory procedure of self-perpetuation. Each change of government in the Soviet Union since 1924 has been attended by a formal rejection and vilification of the preceding leadership. Thus, Trotsky was charged by Stalin with being a "traitor;" Stalin was accused by Khrushchev with having engaged in "criminal" activities against his country: and now Khrushchev himself is being charged with being a "hare-brained adventurer." In other words, the epithets are not mined, but the Soviet governments. Richard Pipes Professor of History
...corner the Khrushchev story, the Times mustered all three of its house Kremlinologists-Harry Schwartz, who knows Soviet economics, Harrison E. Salisbury, who can read Pravda and Izvestia without a pony, and Max Frankel, who taps Russian experts in the State Department. Foreign News Editor Emanuel Freedman calmly placed a phone call to Moscow 955477, three hours later was talking to the Times's Moscow Bureau Chief Henry Tanner. In the meantime, other messages had been relayed to Tanner through the Times's London and Paris bureaus...
...Nothing got tossed out to make room for the big stories," Bernstein said. "We just increased the news hole. On the night that the Khrushchev story broke, we carried 239 columns. That's well over our norm-195-and if it wasn't a record, it was damned near...