Word: khrushchevism
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...Force Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay is another who seldom makes public speeches-and minces no words when he does. Last week, attending an Air Force Association convention in Philadelphia, LeMay said that the U.S., despite all Nikita Khrushchev's boasts, is well ahead of the Soviet Union in its stockpile of "superbombs," and could have, if it had wanted to, built a 100-megaton bomb "a long time...
...force into the Congo, in a sense because Hammarskjold shamed them into it; later, they turned viciously against him when he refused to allow Russia in effect to take over from the U.N. in the Congo. Thumping his fists, waving his shoe, Moscow's Premier Nikita Khrushchev appalled the General Assembly as he campaigned for Hammarskjold's destruction. "Whose saint is he? . . . It is not proper for a man who has flouted elementary justice to hold such an important post," cried Nikita. Hammarskjold listened, immobile, his hands folded against his chin. Then, pursing his lips, he fairly spat...
Later, in a remarkable, ironic letter to his brother in Sweden, Hammarskjold made clear how he felt about Khrushchev: "The big shoe-thumping fellow continues as a dark thunderhead to threaten all unrepentant 'nonCommunists' with hail and thunder and probably also locusts and other plagues traditionally favored by tribal gods...
...common experience and understand each other's language." pontificated Mailer, "they're utterly different. The hipster is a man of action, always on the move; the beatnik is contemplative, an amateur philosopher. Among world figures today, Kennedy is hip but won't admit it and Khrushchev is hip but doesn't know it." What about British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan? "Irreclaimably square...
...half billion years of slow biological improvement? Over what-Berlin? I agree with Nehru that to go to war under any circumstances for anything at all in our world in our time is utter absurdity. I certainly think Berlin is negotiable, and, as a matter of fact, Khrushchev is not even asking very much...