Word: khrushchevism
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...Never advocated a swap of bases, but merely predicted correctly that Khrushchev might bring up the matter. Stevenson's suggested response: to tell Khrushchev that the matter of foreign bases was already on the agenda of disarmament talks, but that those talks could not even begin until the weapons were out of Cuba. Says a White House aide and former hawk: "Anyone who did not think about the bases as possible points that would be raised in any negotiations after the blockade would have been nutty...
...Pentagon, some Air Force officers worry about the service turning into "a field artillery outfit." While some 90% of U.S. nuclear striking power is still borne by manned bombers, Minuteman will soon change all that. If this bothers some of the officers who fly, it undoubtedly troubles Nikita Khrushchev much more...
...winter in Moscow, but the atmosphere oozed with amiability nevertheless. Khrushchev himself was at flag-draped Kievsky Station to greet Yugoslavia's paunchy Marshal Josip Broz Tito as a "dear comrade" before bundling him and his handsome wife Jovanka off to a Kremlin apartment...
...split was showing up elsewhere. At the Italian Communist Party meeting in Rome, a trio of Red Chinese visitors sat glowering while Party Boss Palmiro Togliatti-looking almost as chubby as Tito-delivered a four-hour attack on Chinese opposition to Moscow's peaceful-coexistence line. Next day Khrushchev's No. 2 man, Frol Kozlov, produced a bitter condemnation of Red China's "dangerous adventurism" in India...
...What sort of smear is this?" gasped Nikita Khrushchev as he strolled past rows of abstract paintings in a Moscow art gallery last week. "You cannot figure out whether they were painted by human hands or daubed by a donkey's tail!" With these words, the Kremlin's ruler doused hopes of Soviet painters that a new liberal era of artistic freedom was under way in Russia...