Word: khrushchevism
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Ever since the 22nd Party Congress, when Khrushchev publicly denounced Albania for its defiance of his anti-Stalin line, the tiny country has been the surrogate through which Moscow and Peking have fought each other. By formally breaking with Albania, Khrushchev is now serving notice that he will not conciliate Peking, is forcing the Red Chinese either to come to heel or else publicly widen the split. Meanwhile. Albania gleefully continues to defy Moscow as Europe's last enclave of Stalin-style Communism...
...strength. Albanians have a Mediterranean fondness for florid and denunciatory speeches, and Hoxha is recognized even by his enemies as a master of this sort of oratory. Tall and handsome, with thick, pomaded hair now greying at the temples, Hoxha draws stormy applause for his insults to Khrushchev...
...have lost none of its old talent for chip-on-the-shoulder recklessness. But whether or not Enver Hoxha will get away with it depends not on him but upon decisions being made in faraway Red China. For what is at issue is not the submission of Albania to Khrushchev but that of Peking. For the time being, Hoxha continued to denounce Khrushchev as a traitor to Marxism, while Red China's Peking Review proclaimed: "Albania will always stand like a giant holding the southwestern outpost of the Socialist camp...
...voice rising, his face turning beet red, Khrushchev declared that none of the Western powers had built a bomb of even 50 megatons. Shouted he: "The 50-and 100-megaton bombs will always hang over their heads like the sword of Damocles...
While Nikita Khrushchev holds out visions of a consumer's paradise just around the corner of the next Seven Year Plan, a band of ingenious entrepreneurs are doing their individual best to make the dream come true a little sooner. They are the Soviet citizens-no one can tell how many-who operate private businesses for private profit, often dodging the police for years before they are caught. Operators of two of the cleverest syndicates were in the hands of the law last week, charged with running a textile empire and lipstick plant with profits that ran into...