Word: khrushchevism
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Serialized Sex. The Labor Party rallied for battle with enthusiasm. Returning from a week's visit to Moscow and pleasant if futile chats with Khrushchev about disarmament, Labor Party Leader Harold Wilson hinted he would produce new evidence this week to show that Britain's security system was breached. He had good reason for confidence: the Daily Mail's National Opinion Poll gave Labor its biggest lead ever: 69.2% to 19.8% over the Tories...
Weightless. Soon after Bykovsky was launched, Khrushchev gave a hint of what was to come. When Britain's visiting Harold Wilson asked how many cosmonauts were up, he replied delightedly: "Only...
...roast beef and chicken, manually operated the controls of his spacecraft. From the capsule, live television images were periodically flashed to Soviet viewers. Bykovsky waved his logbook, let his pencil and other objects float in the cabin to demonstrate weightlessness. On his fourth orbit, the cosmonaut talked directly to Khrushchev in the Kremlin. Not yet a full-fledged party member, Bykovsky said: "I want to be a Communist, a member of our great Leninist party...
After Seagull joined Hawk, there were more messages. Said Khrushchev: "Dear Valentina Vladimirovna, cordial congratulations to the world's first woman cosmonaut on the wonderful flight through the expanses of the universe ... A happy journey to you! We will be extremely glad to meet you on Soviet soil...
Smiling at the TV camera in her capsule-some viewers described her as resembling a tougher-looking Ingrid Bergman-Valentina thanked Khrushchev for his "fatherly concern," assured everyone that she was feeling fine...