Word: khrushchevism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...where they end up glumly competing with one another in the U.S.-Soviet space race. There is Stern, a faint carbon copy of Wernher von Braun who talks like a cross between Tom Swift and Astroboy. There is Nadia, his luscious White Russian assistant who ends up married to Khrushchev's top rocket man. And there is Dr. Kanashima, a Japanese physicist who happened to be at Peenemünde to observe Nazi rocket techniques...
...first such tour, a little over a year ago, covered Western Europe and Russia, where Nikita Khrushchev spent seven hours talking to his American capitalist visitors. In the judgment of all concerned, the first trip was such a success that an encore, with another set of business participants and in another part of the world, became inevitable. Traveling with a TIME Inc. contingent headed by Editor in Chief Hedley Donovan and President James Linen, TIME'S News Tour of Asia included...
...Sides. Though Khrushchev permitted these polemics to take place, he probably never fully understood what the argument was all about. Still, he let the reformers start their experiments in the Bolshevichka and Mayak factories...
When Stalin died and was replaced by Khrushchev, Lysenko lost his absolute power. He was fired as president of the Soviet Academy of Agricultural Sciences as an increasing number of critics dared to oppose his views. Still, Lysenko had startling survivability. Even though Khrushchev was a great admirer of hybrid corn, the most conspicuous practical triumph of orthodox genetics, he did not cut Lysenko down entirely. Himself a peasant's son, Khrushchev was apparently attracted by Lysenko's rustic methods, and as his personal power grew, he raised Lysenko step by step, put him back in the Institute...
...Situation. Khrushchev's fall last October was the beginning of the end for Lysenko. The Soviet press blossomed with articles against him; it published columns of praise for his enemies and critics. Soviet genetic laboratories openly dared to use Western ideas and methods. Lysenko's departure last week was marked by a speech by Mathematician Mstislav V. Keldysh, president of the august Academy of Sciences. Said Keldysh: "The exclusive position held by Academician Lysenko must not continue. His theories must be submitted to free discussion and normal verification...