Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cranston. He draws bigger crowds than Cranston, but California politicians have long since learned that crowd size doesn't mean much in their state. Invariably, Salinger's campaign pitch includes recollections of the days of glory with Jack Kennedy, of his own meeting in Moscow with "Chairman Khrushchev," of how he and a few other New Frontier notables spent seven days and seven nights "looking down the nuclear barrel" at Castro. He insists that he knows more people in Washington than Cranston, and as a Senator could get past more doors. Replies Cranston: "It is one thing...
Thus last week Gamal Abdel Nasser and Nikita Khrushchev, accompanied at the console by the Presidents of Iraq and Yemen, formally completed the first stage of the Aswan Dam project. After 1,550 days of work, the laborers had finished piling up enough rock for the cofferdam to stem the river; the explosion set off by Nasser and his visitors opened up a diversion channel through which the Nile will now flow until the High Dam itself is completed. As the white-crested Nile rushed into the new channel, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko muttered in an unwontedly poetic mood...
...greatest construction project in the history of Egypt-a nation whose ancient pyramid builders had given the art of grand construction to the world. But the Great Pyramid of Khufu* at Giza was dedicated to the sterile memory of a dead man. As Khrushchev said as he rubbernecked through Cairo last week: "Artistic standards are higher now." So are pragmatic goals...
...tussled with this problem in many ways and has been out of Moscow more than it has been in. When Stalin's ironhanded censorship tightened and our own reports were reduced to a useless trickle, we closed our Moscow bureau (1948). Then, as censorship began to ease under Khrushchev, we applied to reopen our office (1956) but were repeatedly turned down. The Soviets changed their minds and readmitted us (1958) but expelled one of our correspondents (1962) because they did not like his reporting on the Cuban missile crisis...
...this, as in most other respects, Nikita Khrushchev's style is more bourgeois than Borgia. His only son Sergei is a bespectacled engineer who shuns the limelight the way Papa relishes it. What really interests Sergei Nikitovich Khrushchev is butterflies and home movies...