Word: khrushchevism
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...famed threat to capitalism in 1956, Nikita Khrushchev thundered "We will bury you." He has since insisted that Communism would win in an economic rather than a thermonuclear sense. But last week Khrushchev had to seek U.S. help to prevent his own economy from being buried. A Soviet trade mission asked to buy about $170 million's worth of U.S. wheat...
...Should the U.S. try to extract a political price for the wheat? In return for U.S. help in keeping Russian bellies full, perhaps Khrushchev could be talked into a promise not to launch any new cold war adventures for a while...
...nuclear weapons was not barred in case of armed conflict. Fulbright saw no need for it. "There's a lot of things we agree on that shouldn't be in this treaty," said he. "I suppose if we took a poll we'd all agree that Khrushchev is a stinker, but that doesn't mean we want to write that into the treaty...
...late Stephen Ward, as pictured in the report, was not only "the provider of popsies for rich people" but caterer as well "to their perverted tastes," and an avowed Communist sympathizer who yearned to paint Khrushchev's portrait. His close friend, Soviet Naval Attaché Evgeny Ivanov, was a spy who made no secret of his activities. Poor Christine was "enmeshed in a network of wickedness" from the time she arrived in London at the age of 16 and took a job as a showgirl-"which involved, as she put it, just walking around with no clothes...
Communism: "We are for coexistence. The Khrushchev-type of coexistence is only a form of subversion. Mao is not more holy than Khrushchev, but Khrushchev is cleverer and therefore more dangerous...