Word: khrushchevism
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...time they got back down to Moscow on Oct. 19, Khrushchev had been deposed in a sudden Kremlin coup. Last week Russia's latest space men (see cover story in SCIENCE) seemed to be taking no chances: their astral greeting was addressed to "the Leninist Central Committee of the Communist Party and the Soviet government." They could have been bolder, for after they fell from orbit, the government was still in the hands of Khrushchev's colorless successors, Premier Aleksei Kosygin and First Party Secretary Leonid Brezhnev...
...were tipped off in advance that Nikita would be available for all to see at a Moscow polling place not a mile from the Kremlin. Sure enough, up wheeled a chauffeured car, and out hopped the familiar figure-not quite as pudgy, not quite as ebullient-but undeniably Nikita Khrushchev. Eager Soviet citizens and reporters swarmed around him, anxious to know how he felt. "I feel just like a pensioner," Nikita replied huskily with a tear in his eye. "All right. All right...
...where they end up glumly competing with one another in the U.S.-Soviet space race. There is Stern, a faint carbon copy of Wernher von Braun who talks like a cross between Tom Swift and Astroboy. There is Nadia, his luscious White Russian assistant who ends up married to Khrushchev's top rocket man. And there is Dr. Kanashima, a Japanese physicist who happened to be at Peenemünde to observe Nazi rocket techniques...
...first such tour, a little over a year ago, covered Western Europe and Russia, where Nikita Khrushchev spent seven hours talking to his American capitalist visitors. In the judgment of all concerned, the first trip was such a success that an encore, with another set of business participants and in another part of the world, became inevitable. Traveling with a TIME Inc. contingent headed by Editor in Chief Hedley Donovan and President James Linen, TIME'S News Tour of Asia included...
...Situation. Khrushchev's fall last October was the beginning of the end for Lysenko. The Soviet press blossomed with articles against him; it published columns of praise for his enemies and critics. Soviet genetic laboratories openly dared to use Western ideas and methods. Lysenko's departure last week was marked by a speech by Mathematician Mstislav V. Keldysh, president of the august Academy of Sciences. Said Keldysh: "The exclusive position held by Academician Lysenko must not continue. His theories must be submitted to free discussion and normal verification...