Word: khrushchevism
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Like many a senior citizen, Nikita Khrushchev was puzzled about what to do with his time. He tried photography, shooting the countryside around his dacha, outside Moscow. Then he tried teaching a jackdaw to talk. Now he has zeroed in on another hobby: hydroponics, the science of growing plants without soil, using pebbles and nutrient-loaded water. He has marked off some pebbled lots, built a system of pipes, and is growing tomatoes with a vengeance...
...could also have pointed to his own colleagues. William Douglas played poker with Roosevelt and advised Kennedy on a wide range of matters, including the Vienna meeting with Khrushchev and the Cuban missile crisis. Chief Justice Earl Warren served President Johnson by leaving the bench to head the investigation of John Kennedy's assassination. Thurgood Marshall joined Vice President Humphrey's supporting entourage on a good-will tour of Africa last winter...
...ministers, by far the best interpreter of his policies. Furthermore, Couve's personality-his reticence, precision, haughtiness-met De Gaulle's criteria of the attributes of a man of quality. The story goes that on a visit to Paris as Soviet Premier, Nikita Khrushchev boasted about his Foreign Minister, saying, "I can order Gromyko to sit on a chunk of ice and he stays there until the ice has melted." Replied De Gaulle: "I can order Couve to sit on a chunk of ice, and it won't even begin to melt...
...18th member-has never taken its seat, choosing instead to flex its nuclear muscle in the Sahara. Red China has declared the committee anathema. HOT LINE, 1963. A minor deterrent, the installation of a direct telecircuit between the White House and the Kremlin, was worked out by Kennedy and Khrushchev...
LIMITED NUCLEAR TEST BAN TREATY, 1963. Originally put forward by Jawaharlal Nehru in 1954, the treaty was brought into being by Premier Khrushchev and President Kennedy ten months after the Cuba missile crisis. More than 100 countries (excluding France and China) joined in the so-called Moscow Treaty, which banned nuclear testing in the atmosphere, in space and under water...