Word: khrushchevism
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...Russian scheme to internationalize Berlin, in exchange for as yet undefined guarantees of Western access, he can relay a remark of President Kennedy's that should be appreciated by Khrushchev, famous for his similes. Said Kennedy to Gromyko: "You have offered to trade us an apple for an orchard. We do not do that in this country...
John Kennedy had no intention of confining himself to Europe, for high on his list was the continuing Communist buildup in Laos and the fighting in South Viet Nam, far away in Southeast Asia. The President reminded Gromyko that he had agreed with Khrushchev on an independent and neutral Laos at their Vienna meeting last June, made it clear that the U.S. considers Russia's role there a test of its willingness to negotiate in good faith. Gromyko replied that Moscow also favored a solution in Laos, but he volunteered no method of achieving...
Labor's escape from the wilderness coincides with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's steady decline from his 1959 popularity peak, when prosperity, his confrontation with Khrushchev, and a top London advertising agency all burnished the image of "MacWonder." At their lowest ebb since the election ("this valley of sluggishness," Gaitskell called it), the Conservatives are trailing five full points behind Labor's Gallup-estimated hold on 37-5% of the population. Few expect a general election much before the government's term runs out in 1964. But Hugh Gaitskell, as his foes ruefully testify...
Capping it all was tea with Nina Petrovna Khrushchev at the Moscow House of Friendship. Russia's first lady remained friendly even when one of her guests asked her, over apples and chocolates, to "convey to your husband the deep concern we feel that within the past month the Soviet Union has tested 17 atom bombs...
...midsummer, the Soviet press was trumpeting claims that this year's harvest would be the greatest in Russian history. Then last month the breast beating began in earnest. In Soviet Kazakhstan, home of Nikita Khrushchev's ambitious virgin-lands project, Party Secretary Dinmukhamed Kunaev glumly confessed that grain production was down for the third successive year and would fall 36% short of plan. Kunaev-whose two predecessors were fired for farm failures-blamed the collective farmers for clumsy plowing, which permitted "a tremendous incursion of weeds," and for inept practices, which caused "heavy losses of grain...