Word: khrushchevism
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With Telstar [July 20] a success and live television from Europe now a reality, will we be having Khrushchev's boot-stamping speeches on summer reruns...
...Kremlin conference room, Nikita Khrushchev casually tossed off a comment that startled a delegation of 14 visiting U.S. editors. The Soviet Union, he said, had developed an anti-missile missile so unerringly accurate that it can "hit a fly in outer space." There were a few scare headlines in the U.S., but intelligence sources voiced strong doubt that Khrushchev's flyswatter really existed. Last week the U.S. answered his boast with a well-timed rejoinder. On Kwajalein atoll in the mid-Pacific, a winged Nike-Zeus missile lurched skyward atop a shaft of flame, soared more than...
...shot reached Washington, Congressmen debating the farm bill in the House burst into applause. California Democrat George P. Miller exultantly called it "one of the greatest breakthroughs in recent defense development." The Army brass who oversee the Nike-Zeus program were jubilant. But just as the Pentagon had taken Khrushchev's boast calmly, so too it restrained its own reaction to the Nike-Zeus success. As far as the Defense Department was concerned, it was merely "part of a continuing development series"-and Secretary Robert S. McNamara had his doubts that it would ever effectively protect...
Boos & Hisses. Washington doubted that Russian technology could thwart a retaliatory thrust by U.S. missiles, and quickly answered Khrushchev's other charges. Khrushchev's denunciation of U.S. nuclear tests, said the State Department, was sheer hypocrisy, considering the fact that Russia broke the test-ban moratorium last fall. Furthermore, the Western Big Three, added Secretary of State Dean Rusk for the 11th time, will not pull out of West Berlin...
...Tricks & Gambols." The provocation consisted mainly of reminding Khrushchev that his professed willingness to smoke the peace pipe was being received with increasing skepticism by even those who do not sit at Western powwows. As Khrushchev should have known, even Hiawatha discovered the need for controls over war clubs...