Word: khrushchevism
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...YORK, April 25--A group of Tocsin members climaxed a demonstration in front of the Soviet legation here this afternoon by presenting embassy officials with a letter to Premier Khrushchev urging a more conciliatory attitude in atomic test ban talks...
Powers first cited what he held to be evident facts: "Everyone is aware that the RED TIDE is creeping nearer to our shored with Castro and Khrushchev now and friendly terms. we are also aware, or we should be, that within the border of these UNITED STATES, communist agents roam freely and for and wide with little or no restriction...
Standing atop the Lenin-Stalin tomb, the most sacred spot in Communist Moscow, Gagarin was greeted by the Presidium, the powerful ruling body of the Soviet Union. Khrushchev made a long speech comparing him to Columbus, naming him a Hero of the Soviet Union and awarding him the brand-new title of First Hero Cosmonaut. The new major, neat in his grey and blue uniform, spoke with admirable poise, the party line rolling easily off his tongue. He thanked the party, the government and Premier Khrushchev for trusting him, a simple Soviet pilot, with the first flight to outer space...
...SECRET SPEECH, by John Robinson Beal (138 pp.; Duell, Sloan & Pearce; $3.50), is a satiric political fantasy that looks ahead to Khrushchev's overthrow, as explained by his imaginary successor, Comrade Dmitri Pushkov. (Khrushchev's fate is only hinted at: he becomes manager of the State Circus Trust.) Calmly, point by point-in a parody of Khrushchev's own speech in 1956 enumerating Stalin's errors-Pushkov proves to a Communist Party Congress that the man who once had only to pound on a U.N. desk with his shoe to frighten the world has really been...
...alarmists took Khrushchev's crudities and clowning as masking political genius, but in reality, he was too soft at Camp David on Berlin, wrong when he broke up the summit meeting in Paris, messed up the U-2 affair, helped build up NATO through his own "brinkmanship," and built up China too fast. Happy with his rockets, he neglected other weapons and left Russia vulnerable to attack. The Secret Speech is not meant as an exercise in smugness. Author Beal, for ten years TIME's State Department correspondent and now bureau chief in Ottawa, does not underrate Russia...