Word: khrushchevism
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Grabbing the Oars. In the midst of the scramble to get Sweden's Margaretha to the church on time this week, Scandinavia's royals had to act relaxed and be nice to Nikita Khrushchev, who descended with his family for an 18-day goodwill tour of Denmark, Sweden and Norway. There were moments of levity, such as the time when Khrushchev startled Swedish Premier Tage Erlander by grabbing the oars of a boat and rowing him nonstop across a 300-yd. lake. But all in all, Nikita was no great hit anywhere. He miffed the Danes right...
Coolly, Tito sat down with Khrushchev, and then agreed to a communique that spoke of "friendship," "cordiality," even of "monolithic unity" among Communists. He probably promised to seek support for Moscow among the Communist parties in nonaligned lands of Africa and Asia. There was no sign that Tito was ready to help curb the satraps' growing independence from Muscovy, whose rule in Eastern Europe remains of course preponderant but is never likely to be quite the same again...
Adhesive to Moscow through thick and thin is East Germany's Walter Ulbricht, who has waited all these years for a peace treaty that would permit him to order the U.S., Britain and France out of West Berlin. The permission never came, because Khrushchev was confronted by the West's readiness to fight for its rights in Berlin. How to keep Walter reasonably happy? After a round of "fraternal meetings" with Ulbricht in Moscow last week, the answer came with announcement of a 20-year "friendship pact" between East Germany and the Soviet Union. The document pledged mutual...
When Soviet Cosmonette Valentino Tereshlcova, 27, first woman to orbit the earth, married fellow Cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayeev, 34, last November, a beaming Khrushchev told the couple, "If you have a baby, the gifts won't fail to come." Last week, the lobby of Moscow's Maternity Institute was filled with proud citizens bearing flowers and remembrances, as "Valya" presented her husband with the world's first cosmonipper
...Buffet is visible stuck to a background wall. Pavel Nikonov's somber Still Life with Pestle and Mortar, with its Braque-like greys and browns, and Aleksei Tyapushkin's still life with flowers on table are also painterly achievements. Sculptor Ernest Neizvestny, who was personally scolded by Khrushchev for his modernism, draws dynamic nudes...