Word: khrushchevian
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...thermonuclear material right enough, but the major element in the explosion was enriched uranium-the same as in Peking's two earlier tests. China's first H-bomb will probably be a triple-stage fission-fusion-fission monster of the same "dirty" quality as the giant Khrushchevian 40-megaton bombs that were exploded prior to the 1963 test ban. Those bombs are too big to be delivered by missile warheads...
...Khrushchevian effort was Egypt, whose President Gamal Abdel Nasser he wooed with $2 billion worth of arms, agricultural aid and the Aswan High Dam. But with Khrushchev's downfall in 1964, Russian initiatives once again waned in the Middle East. Last week Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin set out to correct that. He flew to Cairo for an eight-day, fanfare-ridden series of talks and tours in the land of the pyramids...
Absence of Avocado. What few Westerners remarked in Eastern Europe, however, were the things that are understandably absent, or purposely hidden from view. Traffic is scant even on the main streets of a capital (Rumania's automobile population is a mere 10,000 among 19 million citizens). Khrushchevian "goulash"-the consumer goods that all Eastern European governments now crave-is evident but still in short supply. Because of economic planning that, despite reforms, is still harshly controlled from the top, there may be a glut of pineapple and an absence of avocado. Shoe prices can soar as high...
...movie, all three hours of it, clearly reflects the post-Khrushchevian inclination of Brezhnev and Kosygin to make Soviet history more objective and less like a Communist morality play. If anything, Salvo is likely to accelerate that trend. At least it provoked Red Star, the army newspaper, to demand still greater realism in depicting Soviet historical figures. Salvo, complained the paper, portrayed Trotsky as "a midget, whose actions were downright silly. Yet how could such a midget mislead the people?" Obviously, declared Red Star's own hatchetman, "he was an experienced and powerful demagogue"-and should be shown...
Kosygin had a special sneer for that pet Khrushchevian policy, the de-emphasis of automobile production. Said he: "You know with what obstinacy the idea was foisted on us that our country needed no large-scale production of passenger cars. Everyone was expected to ride buses." What really irritated Kosygin was that government officials in many cases had been forced to ride in dump trucks. Russia currently has fewer than 1,500,000 passenger cars, ranging from the tiny Moskuich (comparable to the old-model German Opel Rekord but priced at about $4,000) to balloon-tired Chaikas that sell...