Word: khrushchevism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, reflecting on the U.S.'s determined response in 1961 to Khrushchev's threats to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany, cautioned his aides against any hasty action. Said Rusk: "We mobilized troops, we spent $6 billion, and when we looked around, nobody was there...
Remember the great debate in 1959, when Nilcita Khrushchev and Richard Nixon slugged it out over the dishwashers at a Moscow exhibition? Last week the ex-Premier, tanned and much trimmer at 74, ambled through another kitchenware show, Moscow's International Household and Services Equipment Fair. With Wife Nina, Nikita Sergeevich swapped memories and jokes with fairgoers and, though avoiding the U.S. Pavilion, strolled over to the British exhibit, where he reluctantly turned down a bottle of Scotch after Nina chirped in English, "Oh, no. He does not drink any more." That ban does not apply to suds, however...
Professional that he is, Oliphant does not let his political views get in the way of his craft. For that reason, he is genuinely sorry that a politician of such caricaturable assets as L.B.J. is leaving the scene. "Politics aside," he says, "losing Johnson is like losing Khrushchev." That still leaves Hubert Humphrey, of course. Because of the raw material he supplies a cartoonist, Oliphant would like to see him elected President: "It would give me four good years of fun." His last choice for President: Eugene McCarthy, whose patrician, well-chiseled face lacks a single exaggerated feature to exploit...
...when city officials fled the Germans, and led the local resistance throughout the war. Dijon's citizens voted him in as mayor in every election from 1945 to the present, and though he often proved a thorn both to his church (he once called Khrushchev "a crusader for peace") and government (De Gaulle, he said, was a "big boob"), he never failed to delight his followers-as when he squelched a heckler on the existence of God with: "You've never seen my derriere, have you? Yet it exists...
...world's leading unperson celebrated his 74th unbirthday, as a hand ful of friends and relations gathered at the modest dacha outside Moscow to pay their respects to Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev...