Word: khrushchevism
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...Kremlin speech, Old Soldier Khrushchev did a little Orwell-style rewriting of history. "On the eve of World War II, the so-called Western democracies conducted a double-faced policy," he cried. "They sought to prod Nazi Germany against our country . . . It was the perfidious policy of the ruling circles of Britain and France that impelled us to conclude a nonaggression pact with Germany in August...
West German Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano briskly set the record straight: "It was nothing but a joint aggression pact that brought together two people who intended from the very beginning to deceive each other. I am perfectly willing to send Herr Khrushchev a map showing the new frontier [dividing Poland] between Germany and the Soviet Union which bears the signatures of Stalin and Ribbentrop...
...rostrum in the Kremlin's Great Hall waddled a stumpy figure in the dark green of a Soviet lieutenant general and sporting a chestful of medals. Sure enough, it was Nikita Khrushchev, epigrammatist, agriculturist, commissar, statesman-and now, it seemed, officially a war hero. It was the 20th anniversary of Hitler's invasion of Russia. According to the new history of World War II just off the press, none other than Nikita pressed Stalin in vain to change his tactics before the Nazis attacked in 1941. And who saved Stalingrad? "Great meritorious service in that connection was performed...
...said, "is to become even more elegant than you." How had she reduced? "Tennis, the secret of a good figure. Diet? I never diet. I eat everything." With that, she flew back to Moscow, where the knowing party climbers hang on her every word, explaining: "Whatever Furtseva says, Khrushchev means...
...Nation's Future (NBC, 9:30-10-30 p.m.). Debate subject: "How Free Should the Press Be?" Among participants: Aleksei Adzhubei, son-in-law of Soviet Premier Khrushchev and editor of Izvestia, Pierre...