Word: khrushchevism
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Ever since Moscow and Peking openly split on Communist ideology, Mao Tse-tung's high command has been quietly cracking down on everyone rash enough to question the hard-line Marxism separating him from the hated Khrushchev revisionists. Apparently, the purges have not been too successful, for last week the shadow of dialectic oblivion was falling on Mao's two most influential victims so far, and it had be gun to look as if the biggest public brainwash since 1957 was not far away...
...last week Laurel, Miss., Soprano Leontyne Price, 37, and Salzburg-born Maestro Herbert von Karajan, 59, gathered at the Bolshoi Theater with the La Scala Opera Company to show what they could do with Verdi's Requiem. Quite a lot, as it turned out. The crowd, including Nina Khrushchev, enveloped the visitors in a bear hug, howling "Bravo! Bravo! Bravo!" and mashing its way down the aisles to pelt the stars with carnations in a 26-minute storm of applause that included 16 curtain calls...
...fawning fidelity still counts for anything among Communists, Bulgaria must be Nikita Khrushchev's favorite satellite. Even East Germany, which usually can toady just as well as Bulgaria, has caused Khrushchev some embarrassment with its insistence on the ugly Berlin Wall. Yet this month, when Bulgaria celebrated the 20th anniversary of Communist rule, Nikita did not bother to attend. Last week East Germany's Walter Ulbricht was in Bulgaria commiserating with Premier Todor Zhivkov, 53, who certainly deserved better than a cold Khrushchevian snub...
...always been and always will be enosis," that is, union of Cyprus with Greece, Makarios met with Premier George Papandreou, and both announced "complete accord" on Makarios' peace offering, though the Greek government was obviously concerned about the official Cypriot delegation currently in Moscow seeking aid from Nikita Khrushchev...
...Wall Street banker's daughter astonished the Russians this summer by asking for an iron so she could press her own dresses. And Neva Rockefeller, 20, who was visiting Nikita Khrushchev with her father David, is independent in other ways. A Radcliffe junior and aspiring playwright, she made known her engagement last week to Gerald Michael Medearis, 24, a St. Louis public-school graduate, who interrupted his Harvard education for four years to "find himself" by working in a Hollywood sound studio...