Word: khrushchevism
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...that Castro had raced off to Moscow to talk about Panama and the opportunities for stepped-up Communist subversion in Latin America. But other than the standard Pravda denunciations of "Yankee imperialism," there was little indication that Moscow was anxious to risk the fragile detente abuilding with the U.S. Khrushchev himself waited a full week before publicly mentioning Panama, then limited himself to a relatively mild attack: "Display some reason, gentlemen. Get out before it is too late, before you are chucked out." What seemed to aggravate Khrushchev far more was the recent CIA report that Russia itself...
...turboprop before the Cuban people were told that he was gone. Even to his Russian hosts, Fidel Castro's visit seemed a surprise. Only two welcoming banners could be seen hanging in the 21° cold at Vnukovo airport. But out rolled a Red carpet, and Premier Nikita Khrushchev was on hand to snuggle into the beard when the Maximum Leader came bounding down the ramp...
Aside from that snow job, the Russian press allowed only that Castro and Khrushchev were "talking about matters of interest to both parties." Washington's Castrologists had some ideas about what those matters might be. One theory was that Castro's recent talks with Soviet Presidium Member Nikolai Podgorny had ended in a fiasco in Havana, with Podgorny more than a little annoyed because the Cubans didn't seem to know the value of a ruble. Though the Communists are pumping more than $1,000,000 a day into Cuba, the economy is on the verge...
...Nikita Khrushchev's boasts of overtaking the West by 1970, an extensive report released by the Central Intelligence Agency last week argues that the Russians are actually falling far behind. In 1962 and 1963, according to the agency's analysis, the Russian economy grew at a rate of less than 2.5% annually, while the U.S. growth rate averaged 5.5% and is expected to expand at that level in 1964 as well. Even if the Russians doubled their gross national product (1962 level: $260 billion) in the next decade, a feat that most experts consider impossible, Soviet output...
...editorials, which are usually short, sometimes outrageous, but always understandable. The News's editorial page pulls a thumping 60% of its readers-well above the national average-by offering some of the liveliest reading fare in the country. When not venting its spleen on its favorite villain ("Killer Khrushchev," "the butcher of Hungary and Ukraine," "Red Hitler"), the News indulges its own peeves, such as the United Nations ("throw the bums out"), or directs a fervent plea to American ingenuity to solve a serious technical problem: how to keep small boys' trousers zippered...