Word: khrushchevism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...journalistic coup, it would be hard to beat the publication of Nikita Khrushchev's reminiscences. Last week LIFE announced that it had accomplished just that coup. Beginning with its issue of Nov. 23, the magazine will serialize Khrushchev Remembers in four successive installments. The articles will be accompanied by previously unpublished pictures; the entire undertaking was carried out in deep secrecy, and was given the code name "The Jones Project." On Dec. 21, Little, Brown (owned by Time Inc.) will publish the 275,000-word book. LIFE and Little, Brown announced that they "are convinced beyond any doubt...
...security (some of the U.N.'s own 230-man guard force used the occasion to stage a "sick-out" in support of wage demands). In 1960, the 34 world leaders who showed up for the U.N.'s 15th anniversary included such luminaries as Dwight Eisenhower, Nikita Khrushchev, Jawaharlal Nehru and Fidel Castro...
...ministers. That left Rumanian President Nicolae Ceausescu as the only Eastern European star-quality representative at the meeting. Ceausescu, of course, made the trip not so much to visit the U.N. as to drum up trade deals and tour Disneyland (a treat, he was well aware, that was denied Khrushchev during his 1959 U.S. tour for security reasons...
...KHRUSHCHEV: "During a walk in the park we go aboard a boat. Khrushchev shouts, 'Kosygin, your turn to row, as usual!' I ask the Soviet Premier, 'But when do you work? You are constantly traveling or granting long interviews. What time do you have left for studying your dossiers?' Khrushchev replied: 'But I don't work. A Central Committee decree prescribes that after 65-I am 66 years old-one works only six hours a day four days a week. That is just enough for my trips and my audiences. They...
...when he returns to the Elysée Palace this week will be a specially printed copy of De Gaulle's new volume bearing the phrase, "Especially printed for . . ." Only 16 others are in existence, directed to such luminaries as Pope Paul, Mamie Eisenhower, Queen Elizabeth and Nikita Khrushchev...