Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jacobson accompanied President John F. Kennedy to his 1961 summit meeting with Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna, visited Kennedy at the White House and was often heard to boast that he treated both the Chief Executive and his wife. Last week the New York Times reported that the German-born G.P. could have done a good deal more name-dropping from his roster of rich and famous patients. The Times also suggested that those patients were getting some startling treatments. Dr. Jacobson, said the Times, had been dispensing amphetamines, the powerful stimulants known to the drug culture as "speed...
...doing, and with swift success: that very evening Kosygin approved the outlines of last week's deal. It was not the first time that Kendall had scored by going to the top of the Soviet hierarchy. In 1959, Kendall set his corporate star rising by persuading Nikita Khrushchev to down a Pepsi to slake the thirst he had worked up during a "kitchen debate" with Richard Nixon at a U.S. exposition in Moscow...
Death Revealed. Yelena N. Khrushchev, 35, daughter of the late Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev; on July 14. Once a student of law and journalism, Yelena was the youngest of Khrushchev's five children. Her death was unreported in Russia, but her tombstone was discovered by a sharp-eyed American official visiting her father's grave. She is buried near him in Moscow's Novodyevichy Cemetery...
...Rogers call for an international treaty against terrorism. Fearing attacks even inside the U.N., bodyguards sat close to some foreign ministers scattered among the 131 delegations; gallery visitors were closely screened and carefully watched. Vulnerable figures like Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban moved amid the tightest security since Nikita Khrushchev visited the U.N. in 1960. In spite of that clear and present evidence of the insidious, pervasive nature of terrorism, Assembly delegates gave only a palsied response to Rogers' proposals for doing something about...
...very un-Japanese." But popular magazines revere him as a reincarnation of Taiko, a peasant-bred warrior who rose to the top samurai rank in the 16th century. To Western journalists in Tokyo, who are used to dealing with faceless and unfathomable bureaucrats, Tanaka is a godsend, the earthy Khrushchev of Japanese politics...