Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Good for you. Yanks! Your swift reflexes over Cuba warned Khrushchev with appalling clarity that if he tweaked the "paper tiger's" tail it could, and would if necessary, hook him instantly with nuclear claws. The Gulf of Tonkin action and reaction should serve as a similar warning to the impetuous Mao dynasty. Let's hope so, anyway. If it doesn't, then we Aussies are right in there with...
...RISE OF KHRUSHCHEV (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). NBC's 1963 White Paper on Nikita-the-Bold's ascent to the throne left vacant by Stalin. Chet-the-Huntley narrates. Repeat...
More Than a Press Pass. If Red China and Rumania put Nikita on the defensive, he was nonetheless preparing for an offensive of his own in another direction. In one of those gestures of détente toward the West that so aggravate his Chinese Communist adversaries, Khrushchev called in a visiting "capitalist-imperialist" for a 21-hour chat in the Premier's Kremlin office. The visitor was none other than David Rockefeller, of Wall Street and the Chase Manhattan Bank, who had been attending a meeting in Leningrad when Nikita summoned him. In a "relaxed, friendly, even though...
Erhard seemed willing enough to meet Khrushchev, assured the guest that the agenda would be "unrestricted" -which meant that Nikita could talk all he wanted to about the evils of NATO membership, and Erhard would be able to raise at will the question of German reunification. Though Khrushchev still has to say "da" before a formal invitation from Bonn is forthcoming. But there was no question that both leaders seemed to feel that they had nothing to lose by such a meeting -and possibly something to gain...
Bearing a handsomely engraved Burmese silver bowl for Nikita Khrushchev, U.N. Secretary-General U Thant flew into Moscow last week on a matter of principal: $54,768,188 in back payments that Russia owes the world organization...