Word: khrushchevism
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Upon hearing of Mme. Ivinskaya's imprisonment, Nobel-prize winner Bertrand Russel sent a private note to Premier Khrushchev, asking whether she had, in fact, been jailed. Subsequently, a letter-writing campaign by famous authors of the Western world was started in behalf of the woman and her daughter. Among those who have sent letters thus far are Graham Greene and Francois Mauriac...
Lying on each delegate's desk was a set of "theses" in which Khrushchev proposed a program to resettle peasants in large apartment-house towns called agrogoroda, or agro-cities, from which they could commute to work on the farm. When Khrushchev, as Stalin's farm troubleshooter, first brought up this idea back in 1949, his rival, Georgy Malenkov, attacked it as wildly irresponsible, and Stalin called it off before it was even tried. Trying to please Khrushchev, Sokolov now said that his region planned to build agro-cities on big state farms to replace villages. Khrushchev...
...some 21 million farmers produce enough to feed 179 million Americans, with so much to spare that farm surpluses are a constant embarrassment to the Government. But plainly, Khrushchev's Communism had still not found a way to get some 100 million Russian peasants to do even a passable job of feeding themselves and the ever more numerous city dwellers...
...neglected problem" of federal parking would not be "swept under the rug." The New York Daily News advised Kennedy to staff his State Department with reliable anti-Communists such as Victor (I Chose Freedom) Kravchenko and Princess Alexandra Kropotkin. "Of course, President Kennedy can buddy up to Castro and Khrushchev," said the News, "but if he does, he'll brand himself as a dishonest man, to say nothing of giving the criminal Communist conspiracy a powerful assist in its drive to enslave the human race. Somehow, we can't picture Kennedy being as dumb and deceitful as that...
Simpson could do little else. The rich and well-run C. & O., controlled by Chairman Cyrus Eaton, Khrushchev's favorite capitalist, made the offer to exchange stock so attractive that a majority (55%) of B. & O. stockholders have already agreed to swap their stock for C. & O. shares. If the merger is approved by the Interstate Commerce Commission, C. & O. President Walter Tuohy will consider another merger with the Central...