Word: khrushchevism
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...Ireland, Brendan Corish, leader of the Labor Party, credits Kennedy with leading the world into forming "the Trinity of Peace, with Pope John XXIII and Khrushchev." In the past three months, major Italian magazines have carried nine cover stories either on Jack or some other Kennedy, and only one on Johnson. Says Author-Politician Luigi Barzini (The Italians): "Kennedy has attained a superman stature in Italian eyes. He was the man of hope, the man who could have done anything. He was the man who could have brought lasting peace to the entire world...
...offbeat feature story on, say, an obscure trial witness. Whenever Hearst editors scented a big story, she was sure to get the assignment; she was on hand for Bruno Hauptmann's trial, F.D.R.'s first presidential campaign, Queen Elizabeth's coronation, Princess Margaret's marriage, Khrushchev's U.S. visit. In turn, her fellow Hearst employees respected her as a master practitioner of Hearst journalism, a judgment that was amply evident in the amount of space-some seven pages-that the Journal-American devoted to her death...
According to his journal, Penkovsky approached Western sources-both in Moscow and abroad-many times before he convinced the West that he was a legitimate informer. His reasons: sheer hatred of Nikita Khrushchev, coupled with fear of thermonuclear war. Once in the confidence of the West, Penkovsky turned his embittered talents to transmitting everything he knew to the West. Penkovsky's contact was Greville Wynne, a businessman and go-between for British intelligence who served as Penkovsky's chief courier...
Through Wynne and others, Penkovsky leaked details of the impending Berlin Wall operation (apparently disbelieved by the West, or at least not acted upon), and the presence and location of missiles installed by Russia in Cuba before the crisis of 1962 (information that may have aided Washington in calling Khrushchev's bluff...
Quiet as Hell. Did the arrest presage a new cultural crackdown? So far, the Brezhnev-Kosygin regime has taken a moderate approach to intellectuals, avoiding the shrill, savage attacks of the Khrushchev era. Khrushchev's cultural hatchet man, Leonid Ilyichev, has been removed; Stalin's pet geneticist, Trofim Lysenko, has been disavowed by Russian science; imaginative and critical writing appears frequently in Soviet publications so long as it remains within limits. More importantly, B. & K. seem to recognize the sheer public-relations value inherent in "liberalization." Says one Washington Kremlin-watcher: "These men would like to handle this...