Word: khrushchevism
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...equally paradoxial statements, the Administration denied the validity of evidence that Russia had bowed out of the moon race. It claimed that Premier Khrushchev's disavowal of Soviet interest in putting a man on the moon was only a ploy to slow down American efforts. This suggested that the Administration was anxious to continue using the word "race" regardless of Russian intentions...
...China is far from giving up its nuclear ambitions. Some time ago, Khrushchev warned that any country trying to build a bomb without adequate resources might lose its pants. Nevertheless, said Chen, sounding like an echo of Charles de Gaulle, "at the risk of losing our pants, we are determined to go ahead and build our own atomic bombs. Otherwise we will end up as a second-or third-class nation...
With Washington's attention focused on Khrushchev's moves in the Caribbean, Galbraith was left to handle the border war on his own. "I was thoroughly swamped with decisions and there probably wouldn't have been time to consult Washington on many problems anyway...
...wheat be transported in U.S. ships whenever possible. Since it costs around $20 a ton to move the wheat to Russian ports in U.S. vessels, roughly twice as much as in foreign bottoms, the Russians are anxious to get around that provision. And in Moscow last week, Nikita Khrushchev told a press conference that "if the Americans put forth any kind of discriminatory condition to the sale of wheat, then we will not buy wheat in America...
Liberals generally rate fairly low: Pundit Norman Cousins has a three-minute McL-C, Dean Acheson a coefficient of ten minutes, but McLandress gives President Kennedy a rating of 29 minutes. Elizabeth Taylor, Nikita Khrushchev and David Susskind all have the same coefficient: three minutes...