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Gorbachev is a realist who does not make grandiose promises. At a 1961 party congress, Nikita Khrushchev unveiled a program predicting that Soviet citizens by 1980 would enjoy free transport and housing, the end of manual labor and living standards that exceeded those of any capitalist country. Instead of placebos, Gorbachev's 15-year plan sets targets: industrial output and national income will double by the end of the century, and labor productivity must grow by 130%. To meet those goals, the economy is supposed to expand at a 4.7% annual rate, about twice the pace of the past decade...
Kennedy's call brought out the dreamers, the tinkerers, the organizers, the suppliers. Lyndon Johnson never tired of telling the story of how Americans had found Teflon "for your old fryin' pan" on the way to the moon. But there was heavy counterpoint to this melody of invention. Nikita Khrushchev raged at Kennedy in Vienna in 1961. The Berlin Wall went up. The Soviets tested their huge hydrogen bomb, the one U.S. scientists had said they would not have for years...
...first public performance at 13, he was a Communist Party member from 1942 on, and his concerts in the West frequently drew pickets as well as enthusiastic audiences. In an attempt to defuse the protests, Gilels once confessed to Western reporters that, yes, he had played for Nikita Khrushchev--but on an American piano, a Steinway...
...engineer who was Moscow's representative to Comecon, the East bloc's common market. Also leaving the top leadership is Nikolai Tikhonov, 80, who retired from the Politburo, having resigned last month from his government job as Premier. In addition, Gorbachev put to rest the gossamer dreams of Nikita Khrushchev, who drafted a long-term economic plan in 1961 predicting the Soviet Union would surpass the U.S. economically by 1970. Gorbachev announced that the embarrassing document, technically still in effect, had been rewritten to excise parts that in his view "have not stood the test of time...
Player Piano, Kurt Vonnegut's 1952 satire about automation and the working stiff, was premature. Cat's Cradle (1963), an end-of-the-world scenario, fared better in the wake of Khrushchev's shoe banging and the Cuban missile crisis. Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) was, in the expression of the day, right on. The novel was based on the author's experience as an American POW in Dresden when Allied bombers killed 135,000 civilians. This reminder of total war coincided with the mayhem of Viet Nam, and Vonnegut the cult writer became a popular voice of generalized disenchantment. His refrain...