Word: khrushchevism
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...since the effect of the control commission, if it works, will be to freeze the status quo, Khrushchev doubtless wanted to grab what he could before that day came. In Kong Le he had a tough fighting man sitting on the country's crossroads. In the Pathet Lao, he had a supple organization that keeps gaining ground in the back country, no matter what government is in power. Even when it achieves the first goal of restoring peace, the U.S. will face the long-range challenge of reversing that losing trend...
...high in the vaulted St. George's Hall. Ambassadors, bishops, marshals in all their medals and all the top Soviet bosses thronged the long banquet tables and devoured mounds of caviar and salmon as Bolshoi sopranos sang and a symphony orchestra played. At the stroke of midnight,* Nikita Khrushchev raised his glass of Caucasian wine and shouted: "Happy New Year, comrades!" In great good spirits, he tossed out more toasts-"The heroic working class!" "The collective peasantry!" "The Soviet intelligentsia!" "The all-conquering ideas of Marxism-Leninism...
...adjoining Vladimir Hall. First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan, that scowling Old Bolshevik who helped the Soviets take over in Baku, led off with an Armenian solo. Then blonde Minister of Culture Ekaterina Furtseva, only woman on the top Presidium, danced decorously out on the arm of President Leonid Brezhnev. Khrushchev, after watching a while from a stairway, walked off to the Winter Garden with West German Ambassador Hans Kroll, whose government a few hours earlier had signed a treaty with the Soviet Union in Bonn, increasing their trade by a third...
...Virgin Lands. Two days later Khrushchev appeared at a Cuban embassy reception to read another piece of paper-mostly about the Soviet Union's desire for peace in places like the Congo, Laos, Cuba. Khrushchev roared with laughter as Mikoyan started shouting "Cuba da, Yankee nyet!" Asked by reporters about the 1960 harvest, which is thought in the West to have lagged 20% below plans, Khrushchev said, "It was not as bad as the previous year," but still left room for improvement. "That explains the reorganization of the Virgin Lands," he volunteered, and dropped the first word that tubby...
...Accompanied by members of his family and his childhood schoolteacher, Lidiya Shevchenko (up for the holidays from Khrushchev's native village of Kalinovka), distributed gifts to several hundred high school students under the spreading New Year's tree in the Kremlin...