Word: khrushchevism
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...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...
...campaign to overthrow President Liu Shao-chi, the "pro-Moscow revisionist" who remains his most powerful foe. In the Kwangsi region last week, a Maoist tabloid accused one party loyalist of "bugging" flowerpots and sofas in Mao's headquarters "to procure information for China's Khrushchev"-Liu. In Peking, police forced the President's daughter to give public testimony against her father, then arrested her because her criticism was "insufficient...
When George Romney resigned from the presidential race, Newman was hailed in to anchor a special report. He handled the same sort of job for twelve days during last year's Arab-Israeli crisis. When Lucy Jarvis produces a big documentary-Khrushchev, Picasso, Christiaan Barnard-she taps Newman for his narrative authority and scriptwriting dexterity. About twice a month, Meet the Press summons Newman to play moderator. Speaking Freely, Newman's urbane interview series with the likes of Harold Macmillan, Rudolf Bing and Physicist Hans Bethe, is so bright, lively and informative that 50 Public TV stations across...
Confrontation in Vienna. Aside from demonstrating just how far disaffection in the Senate has spread, the session did serve another purpose. It laid out, occasionally with eloquence, the basic positions of the Administration and its less extreme critics. Rusk recalled the Kennedy-Khrushchev confrontation in Vienna: "In effect, Chairman Khrushchev said to this young President of ours, 'Take your troops out of Berlin or there will be war.' It was necessary for this young President to say, Then Mr. Chairman, there will be war.' " Had the Russian leader believed that Kennedy lacked support at home, Rusk said...