Word: khrushchevism
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...conduct are not forthcoming, the government should still let reporters willing to take the risk upon themselves go to Cuba. They would be little risk of imprisonment: Castro--like Kennedy--does not desire to create an incident which might trigger an invasion. Furthermore, he can use American reporters as Khrushchev does, to send trial balloons toward Washington. Castro seems confident that Americans will be impressed, as British and European correspondents have been, by what they...
...minute discussion was conducted under large portraits of Lenin and Khrushchev in a heavily glided rococo room that one Harvard visitor suggested would have been more appropriate as a Czarist embassy...
...Nikita Khrushchev was getting a little self-conscious about the way the capitalist world was cheering on Red Russia's quarrel with Red China. At a Moscow party given by the visiting King of Laos, Nikita grabbed the hand of the Chinese ambassador for all the attendant Western correspondents to see, and declared: "When the last spadeful of earth is thrown on the grave of capitalism, we will do it together with China...
Flashy Journalism. The whole trip was nothing short of smashing: a reception by the Foreign Trade Ministry, a lunch with the Union of Soviet Journalists, rubberneck tours of the Kremlin and the Pravda newspaper plant, and finally an audience with Khrushchev himself...
...hours, the Communist host and his capitalist guest exchanged good-natured gibes, hitting it off quickly when they discovered that they were born a few weeks apart in 1894. Five times, Thomson suggested vainly that the Premier hold free elections in East Germany, and once Khrushchev called his guest "an exploiter." When Thomson presented Khrushchev with battery-driven watches, his host was suspicious: "Are you sure it is not an infernal machine put together by capitalists to blow up Communism? I will tell my wife to try them on first." Said Thomson: "We don't need any infernal machines...