Word: khrushchevism
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...three minutes, speaking before the Supreme Soviet, Nikita Khrushchev decreed the removal of Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev from the presidency of the Soviet Union and won the automatic assent of the 1,443 "worker and peasant" delegates. For Brezhnev, 57, the step down was really a step up. More clearly than ever, Brezhnev (TIME Cover, Feb. 21) is now Khrushchev's heir apparent. Being freed from the mere protocol tasks carried out by the President (formally known as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet), he can now apply himself more vigorously to the job that really counts: helping...
Died. Maurice Thorez, 64, longtime French Communist chieftain, a coal miner turned professional revolutionary, who took control of the party as secretary general in 1934, ran it as a mirror of the Kremlin, slavishly devoted first to Stalin, then to Khrushchev, seeing it grow to nearly 1,000,000 members after World War II only to decline rapidly (current membership: 240,000) in the face of European prosperity, until, suffering from chronic ill health, he "elevated" himself to president last May, leaving everyday tactics to another man; of an apparent heart attack aboard a Russian ship traveling to Yalta...
...always, Khrushchev on tour turned out to be part frolicking peasant, part common scold. In his lighter moments, he was engagingly frank. With half a glass of beer inside him, he was asked at an after-dinner party whether the Russians had ever solved their succession problem. Khrushchev's response was a jocular account of the 1957 at tempt by Bulganin, Molotov, Malenkov and Kaganovich to depose him. "Bulganin," said Khrushchev, "was and is a very good bookkeeper. He was even being a bookkeeper during the anti-party revolt. He thought that four was bigger than seven. He knows...
...Bergen's famed fish market, there was more heavy-handed fun. Khrushchev greeted an aquarium-housed Volga beluga as a fellow countryman, saw a market stall collapse and a photographer topple into a pile of fish, roared with laughter when the owner of another stall chased off a newsman by wildly swinging a fish as a weapon...
...more serious moments, Khrushchev threw his hosts into a wintry Norwegian chill. On Cuba, he gave the impression that he would approve if Castro shot down an overflying U.S. reconnaissance plane, and would come to his aid if the U.S. retaliated. He denounced recent NATO maneuvers near the Russian-Norway border, and, as he had the Danes, advised Norwegians to get out of the Atlantic Pact altogether. The Norwegians neither needed nor wanted the advice-and their response was just the reverse of what Khrushchev was suggesting. The Russian, said an outraged Norwegian government official, succeeded only in "solidifying...