Word: khrushchevism
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Nixon lieutenants read off hopeful reports based on a survey of Republican leaders around the country, but a grimness hovered over the meeting. Only three weeks before the showdown, Richard Nixon's campaign was in trouble. His basic campaign theme-maturity and experience to cope with Khrushchev and keep the peace-had failed to stir any surge among the voters. The whiff of recession in the autumn air was weakening the second half of the G.O.P. "peace and prosperity" claim. Most worrisome of all was the mounting evidence of a wide Roman Catholic swing to Democrat Jack Kennedy...
...himself was much impressed by Nixon's conduct during the heart-attack crisis, his courage in the face of Communist-led mobs in Lima and Caracas in 1958, and his steadiness in the famed "kitchen debate" with Khrushchev in Moscow last year. Early this year, Ike made it clear that he wanted Richard Nixon to succeed him in the presidency...
...times, British statesmen, like British mountaineers, seem driven to climb the summit for no better reason than because it's there. This thought struck Germany's Chancellor Adenauer last week as Prime Minister Macmillan, fresh from leading the U.N. Assembly battle against a rampageous Nikita Khrushchev, briskly informed Britain's Tories: "We must try to get back to the mood of last spring. Negotiations on Berlin and Germany must be resumed...
...week Mayor Brandt, who has always in the past opposed big-power conferences on Berlin because the West can only give something away, endorsed Macmillan's new summit call on the ground that a confrontation is needed before his city is nibbled to death. Now that Macmillan and Khrushchev have practically named the date, Berliners look for some sort of crisis soon after the inauguration of the next U.S. President...
...first man ever to take off his shoe and use it for a gavel at the U.N. last week gathered 12,000 of the faithful in the Lenin Sports Palace in Moscow and gave his candid opinion of the international body. "A terrible organization!" said Nikita Khrushchev, all but shuddering at the memory. "If you could see how the delegates behave! They get much money and spent much time in restaurants with their wives. They do not participate in work, but just sit there and wait around in case there's any voting. One important head of a delegation...