Word: khrushchevism
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...growing uneasiness over the abridgment of free press and speech, we are grateful to you for your coverage of the RB-47 flyers and especially for the story of the strings attached to their release. How long is "Be Kind to Khrushchev Week" going to last...
...State Department's top Russian experts are chewing over the merits of an early face-to-face meeting between President Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev. Ambassador Thompson, just in from Moscow, reported that Khrushchev sorely wants to appraise Kennedy's personality and politics firsthand, argued that the Soviets would be unwilling to make peace in Laos or the Congo until they have heard more from Kennedy himself about his long-range intentions. Shaping up: a K.-to-K. confrontation, probably in April at the U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York...
...Eisenhower Administration learned in early December of Nikita Khrushchev's intention to release the captive RB-47 flyers when the Kennedy Administration took over. The intelligence was passed along to President-elect Kennedy, was Washington's best-kept top secret until the actual release of the airmen...
...prison or disgrace all Soviet biologists who defended the orthodox axiom that basic traits are transmitted by genes that cannot be changed by training the parent organism. Lysenko's dictatorship died with Stalin. But now Lysenko is back in bloom, not as a declaimer of dogmas, since Nikita Khrushchev does not care much about that, but as a preacher of the kind of husbandry that Khrushchev hopes will whip up the country's badly lagging farm output...
...still brings the buoyant spirit of religious revival to the Khrushchevian task of boosting yields. Sunburnt and dust-covered, he travels the vast land, bawls orders to the peasants in his hoarse, high-pitched voice: "Keep the weeds down." "Put on more manure." "Thin out in case of drought." Khrushchev, another peasant's son from the Ukraine, understands and appreciates that kind of talk. Lysenko tells virgin land pioneers not to plow their land in the fall but to plant their grain amidst the snow-catching stubble, advises Volga farmers to increase their crop by cutting their seed potatoes...