Word: khrushchevism
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What a bad choice! Do you not know that we live in a post-Christian age? Neither Christianity nor the Pope moves human history. Moreover, in 1962, J.F.K. deflated both Blough and Barnett and checkmated Castro and Khrushchev...
Naturally, Khrushchev takes none of the blame for the fiasco. Three years ago he found a scapegoat in Kazakhstan Party Boss Nikolai Belyaev, fired him for his "errors." Last week Belyaev's successor, Dinmukhamed Kunaev, was similarly bounced-for "lapses" in his work. For good measure, Moscow also purged the former Premier of the territory from the local party's Central Committee...
...perhaps no coincidence that Nikolai Ignatov, 61, a onetime Khrushchev crony, last week abruptly left his post as a Soviet Deputy Premier after only nine months on the job. Farm Expert Ignatov had the misfortune to be boss of a special committee to boost food production...
...loftiness have caused it to outrank the secular concerns of the year, Pope John created history in a different dimension from that of the most dramatic head line of the year. President Kennedy's victory over the Russian missile threat in Cuba was both an embarrassing retreat for Khrushchev and a cold war turning point; it showed that a resolute U.S., willing to use its mighty arms, can maintain the initiative in the cold...
...Pope's frequent pleas for peace are more sympathetic and convincing than those of any of his predecessors as he has urged nations to "hear the anguished cry which from every part of the earth, from the young innocents to the old. rises toward heaven: 'Peace! Peace!'" Even Nikita Khrushchev was moved. He praised the Pope's pleas for peace, sent him a greeting on his 80th birthday. Many in the Vatican thought the Pope should ignore it, but John sat down and wrote a reply: "Thank you for the thought. And I will pray for the people of Russia...