Word: khrushchevism
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...Unions blazed with harsh floodlights for the trial of U-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers. Now even the cascades of the crystal chandeliers were dimmed, hooded with red and white cheesecloth. At one end a string ensemble played softly. The great and near great of the Kremlin, including Khrushchev, took turns beside the flower-cradled coffin as a guard of honor. Long lines of clerks and students filed slowly by, many of them not quite sure who it was they had been summoned to pay last homage to. In the same hall where Lenin and Stalin had been finally honored...
...Taunton, Mass., to become chairman of the U.S. Communist Party from 1932 to 1957. Three times he ran for U.S. President on the Communist Party ticket. Early this year, in failing health, he flew off to Moscow to die. During the long afternoon vigil over his coffin, Nina Khrushchev sat by Foster's widow Esther...
...Nikita Khrushchev's nuclear fireworks displays over the Soviet skies last week were a devastating shock to the illusions of a small but hardy Western breed: the ban-the-bomb campaigners, who are dedicated to the dubious proposition that any political fate is preferable to the horror of atomic war ("I'd rather be Red than dead"). Covertly but vigorously backed by local Communists, the ban-the-bombers typically make U.S. military bases their target in the hope that with the U.S. gone from their homelands, they will have a better chance of sitting out a nuclear holocaust...
Britain's Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament mustered 1,000 marchers to the Soviet embassy in London, but only 200 turned up to picket the U.S. embassy after the U.S. announced it would resume tests. C.N.D. Chairman Canon Collins insisted halfheartedly: "At present, it is Mr. Khrushchev who is shouting threats loudest, but we have to remember that both sides are to blame." Bertrand Russell's Committee of 100 was more inflexible, handed out blue leaflets declaring, "America, we denounce you. The decision by the American Government to resume nuclear tests is criminal. It in no way is justified...
...neutralists dithered and Khrushchev cracked his grim jokes, the Communists kept up their harassment of West Berlin, complaining that some of the passengers flying in from West Germany were "revanchists, militarists, spies and subversives." This, said Moscow, must cease forthwith. Tartly, the U.S., Britain and France replied with joint notes, bluntly reminding the Soviets that the passenger traffic in the corridors to Berlin is no business of the Communists. A passenger buys a ticket, boards his plane and goes. This, said the U.S., is "well understood in societies where free men regulate their own lives in accordance with free choice...