Word: khrushchevism
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...October, 1957, the Supreme Court reversed the verdict because Scales' counsel had been denied access to FRI reports. Earlier, in February, 1957, Scales had quit the Communist Party following the Hungarian uprising and Khrushchev's secret speech denouncing Stalin...
...round of troublemaking that challenged the U.S. from Laos to Berlin. Tension reached its peak with the erection of the Berlin wall and the Soviet Union's resumption of nuclear testing on a monster scale. It looked as if President Kennedy's flinty remark to a flinty Khrushchev at Vienna-"It's going to be a cold winter"-would prove all too true. But last week, after long months in which Moscow has hardly let Kennedy take a deep breath, the tension seemed to be relaxing a little. At his press conference the President was cautiously optimistic...
...more talking and smiling. Off to Paris went White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger for a meeting with Mikhail Kharlamov, press officer of the Soviet Foreign Ministry. And into Washington, at President Kennedy's invitation, flew Aleksei Adzhubei, editor of Izvestia and son-in-law of Premier Nikita Khrushchev...
...Soviet Union. Inevitably, the meetings gave rise to rumors that Salinger was negotiating about a Kennedy visit to Russia, but Salinger denied it "on a stack of Bibles." One thing that Salinger and Kharlamov did talk about: a possible exchange of TV appearances between Kennedy and Khrushchev-either separately on each other's national screens or on a single TV show in both nations through the use of tape...
...active revolutionist by 15, she met Trotsky in Paris in 1902, was jailed with him in Russia after the abortive 1905 revolution, rose to high bureaucratic posts with him (e.g., director of museums) after the 1917 Bolshevik victory, fled with him in 1928, tried vainly to get Nikita Khrushchev to restore him to honor in the Communist constellation...