Word: khrushchevism
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When Glenn returned safely to earth, people everywhere heaved a vast sigh of relief, and tributes began pouring into the U.S. President Kennedy received messages of congratulation from more than 30 heads of state?including Nikita Khrushchev. The pleasure at Glenn's success was shared so widely that even Spain's Pablo Picasso, the Communists' peace-dove artist, was moved to say: "I am as proud of him as if he were my brother...
...quality of World's prose is such that fact and meaning are often obscured. One reads that Francis Gary Powers "sung like a bird," that Romney "did not trip once during the talking," that Khrushchev is "the wily, warty Soviet boss...
...Warsaw, Gomulka complained that, with few exceptions, they "had lower average production yields than the private farms, although the collectives enjoy better conditions," such as cheap government loans, tax rebates, priority on machinery and fertilizer. The lesson-that free farming works while collectivized agriculture does not-obviously interests Moscow. Khrushchev, while still insisting on collectives, has raised financial incentive for increased output. Eying the Polish reward system, Moscow not long ago confessed: "We share your joy in the achievements of your agriculture. Your policy is producing good results...
With the exception of Walter Ulbricht's puppet state of East Germany, the most stubbornly Stalinist regime in the Soviet empire is run by Czechoslovakia's Antonin Novotny. Observing the form rather than the function of Nikita Khrushchev's destalinization drive, Novotny three months ago ordered the demolition of Prague's 6,000-ton Stalin statue and the transfer of dead Red Boss Klement Gottwald from a glass-topped coffin in a grandiose mausoleum to a less conspicuous resting place (TIME. Dec. 1, 1961). But this month, under the transparent banner of destalinization, Novotny carried...
...pressure and outlawed the party. Nevertheless, Roca managed to hold the party apparatus together in Havana, rose to power again with Castro. He led the Cuban delegation to last October's 22nd Communist Party Congress in Moscow, at a review got the place of honor next to Nikita Khrushchev atop Lenin's tomb...