Word: khrushchevism
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Rose went to Vienna to meet Mrs. Khrushchev when the President and the Soviet Premier met in 1961. Sure enough, there was a picture of Viennese banquet tables. "Mrs. Khrushchev," said Rose, "impressed me because she spoke English so well. She shows a lot of initiative and fulfills her position very well...
...official part of Fidel Castro's marathon visit to Moscow was over, and his beaming host had a few words of farewell before sending the honored guest off to southern Russia to loll in the sun for a while. With Castro standing beside him in Lenin Stadium, Nikita Khrushchev by turns praised Cuba's heroic "revolt against tyranny," pleaded for coexistence with the U.S., and angrily threatened nuclear war if the U.S. dared lay a hand on Cuba. He even rang in the American Declaration of Independence, quoting: "Whenever any form of government becomes destructive...
Picking up Khrushchev's borrowed words, any Cuban could well ponder whether this form of government had become destructive...
Smoke Pots & Shovels. The project was initiated 14 months ago, and NBC's Russian-speaking Associate Producer Lucy Jarvis went to Moscow to negotiate. The Russians were agreeable, even though their own TV network has never been permitted to make a similar documentary. Khrushchev approved, but others balked at details. Lucy Jarvis had a box of homemade brownies with her. She passed them around. After that the Soviets drooled whenever the brownies were mentioned and conceded points in order to get at the box again...
...bitterest complainer on this score is Rumania, whose industrial output started from a tiny base and is growing faster than any other COMECON nation's (14.7% last year). Rumanian planners aim to keep it rising at a 12%-a-year pace until 1975, but Khrushchev's COMECON plans would condemn Rumania to mostly farming and supplying raw materials to others. Result: Rumania insists on the "right of every nation to develop and plan its economy in accordance with its own national interests." When Russia dallied in delivering a steel mill that the Rumanians had ordered (against COMECON plans...