Word: khrushchevism
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...Taft, who, I think, probably persuaded the American people that you could use federal tax money for primary and secondary schools without immediately ending in perdition. He himself proposed such bills; they never passed, but he got the thinking going. The second, not precisely like Mr. Taft, is Mr. Khrushchev, who scared the daylights out of us, scared us that the schools were not any good and that we had better compete. The third is Pope John, with the ecumenical movement, and the fourth is Lyndon Johnson. Can you think of a more unlikely batch...
Friendship & Pride. Kim saw his chance with the downfall of Nikita Khrushchev. Peking's resources were too thinly spread for Kim to count on Chinese help, but Russia's new leaders wanted to revive friendships in Asia that Khrushchev had ended. Pyongyang publications soon began soft-pedaling attacks on Moscow's "revisionism," and when Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin visited Kim last February, the stage was set for rapprochement. Soviet aid-cut off in 1963 at the height of North Korea's polemics-was resumed. Under a military assistance pact signed last May, Russia will probably supply...
...thinking." And though Kosygin's new measures represented the largest advance yet for the Western-style reform theories of Soviet economists like Evsei Liberman (TIME cover, Feb. 12), they were balanced by a tightening of the planning bureaucracy. Kosygin announced that the regional planning Sovnarkhozy set up by Khrushchev in 1957 would be abolished, and all Russian economic life put under 20 new national ministries. Among the new creations: one for machine tools, one for oil and chemicals, one for instrumentation and automation...
WARD 7, by Valeriy Tarsis. The Ukrainian writer was railroaded into an insane asylum in 1962 when he published The Bluebottle, a vigorous attack on Soviet tyranny. Not surprisingly, he found that the other patients' only lunacy was to criticize Khrushchev's Russia, and now he voices the plight of his fellow inmates...
WARD 7, by Valeriy Tarsis. The Ukrainian writer was railroaded into an insane asylum in 1962 when he published The Bluebottle, a vigorous attack on Soviet tyranny. Not surprisingly, he found that the other patients' only lunacy was to criticize Khrushchev's Russia, and now he voices the plight of his fellow inmates...