Word: khrushchevism
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...little sad and. in its comfortable banality, revealing. That is what makes the book a valuable collection of footnotes, not the loyal myth making, set to Mother Macree. Nor the predictable chapters with titles like "How Lyndon Got on the Ticket" and "The Showdown with Khrushchev." Certainly not the all too facile celebration of J.F.K. as "insatiably curious," the "toughest" of the Kennedys, and compulsively competitive. These, in fact, are the very qualities, along with "style," that make Kennedy seem so cool, so tentative, so undefined in mind and heart, to today's Camelot revisitor...
Seldom since the blusterous days of Nikita Khrushchev had there been such an epithetic attack on China by a Soviet leader. Launching the Soviet Union's 50th anniversary celebrations in Moscow last week, normally restrained Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev lashed out at Peking for "malicious slander of the Soviet political system and foreign policy," for "absurd claims to Soviet territory," for "sabotage of efforts for disarmament," for "continuous attempts to split the socialist camp," for trying to "foment discord" among "national liberation" movements, and for attempts "to range the developing countries against the Soviet Union...
...Jacobson accompanied President John F. Kennedy to his 1961 summit meeting with Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna, visited Kennedy at the White House and was often heard to boast that he treated both the Chief Executive and his wife. Last week the New York Times reported that the German-born G.P. could have done a good deal more name-dropping from his roster of rich and famous patients. The Times also suggested that those patients were getting some startling treatments. Dr. Jacobson, said the Times, had been dispensing amphetamines, the powerful stimulants known to the drug culture as "speed...
...doing, and with swift success: that very evening Kosygin approved the outlines of last week's deal. It was not the first time that Kendall had scored by going to the top of the Soviet hierarchy. In 1959, Kendall set his corporate star rising by persuading Nikita Khrushchev to down a Pepsi to slake the thirst he had worked up during a "kitchen debate" with Richard Nixon at a U.S. exposition in Moscow...
Death Revealed. Yelena N. Khrushchev, 35, daughter of the late Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev; on July 14. Once a student of law and journalism, Yelena was the youngest of Khrushchev's five children. Her death was unreported in Russia, but her tombstone was discovered by a sharp-eyed American official visiting her father's grave. She is buried near him in Moscow's Novodyevichy Cemetery...