Word: khrushchevism
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...Dean Rusk had hoped to gain time for working out foreign-policy plans by a return to the quiet techniques of traditional diplomacy at the ambassadorial level. But the release of U.S. Airmen Bruce Olmstead and John McKone upset the Kennedy Administration's schedule, made an early Kennedy-Khrushchev summit meeting all but inevitable. Both Jack Kennedy and Dean Rusk remain wary of Soviet intentions, still believe that the best way to prepare for accord is by keeping open every possible line of communication with Moscow. So long as his policy does not appear as weakness or immobility, President...
...want the responsibility for leading mass support: "I just want to make my voice heard." He said that "since no law or decency as we know it exists under Soviet rule, the only hope that Mrs. Ivinskaya has is that a great protest can be directed against Khrushchev...
Look-Alikes. The clearest sign of growing Chinese influence appeared two months ago at the Red summit in Moscow, when a four-hour Chinese denunciation of Khrushchev's coexistence policies drew its strongest support from the delegations from Cuba, Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina and Chile. The basis for such influence is Red China's modulated but persistent argument that the increasingly industrialized Soviet Union bears little resemblance to underdeveloped, poverty-ridden Latin American nations. A much closer lookalike, Latin Americans are told persuasively, is Red China, land of the triumphant peasant revolutionary...
...years ago, when a fast-breaking, aggressive team of Soviet basketbolisty walloped a U.S. quintet 62-37 in a world amateur tournament in Santiago, Chile, Communists everywhere hailed it as another landmark in Khrushchev's campaign to overtake the U.S. in everything from meat production to widget manufacture. "When it comes to shooting at the moon or at the basket, the U.S. cannot keep up with Russia," trumpeted a leftist Chilean paper. "We won," declared Russian Coach Stepan Spandarian loftily, "because we did what we planned...
...Optimists. Last week, with increased vigilance against backcourt deviationists and Trotskyite dribblers, Soviet basketballers returned to the task laid down by Soccer Fan Khrushchev at the 21st Party Congress- preparing for the withering away of the state in the world of sport. Best guess was that this goal was being pursued without the advice of ex-Optimists Spandarian and Semashko, who had already taken just about all the withering a man can stand...