Word: khrushchevism
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...Vice President Richard M. Nixon, "the man who stood up to Khrushchev" in the great Moscow kitchen debate, appears to have backed away from arguments presented by Senator Kennedy in the first "living room" debate on TV. It seems to me that a man who professes to have advised the President during the past eight years could have presented better arguments than agreeing with Senator Kennedy's comments for the better part of half the program...
...anyone except that by it you vent your spleen? (I vent mine on occasion by writing letters to editors.) I do not think that it helps to ease international tensions, no matter if it graphically presents an essential truth. Furthermore, I seriously question your judgment when you say, "Khrushchev was reduced to chumming around with Cuba's Fidel Castro, and such enthusiastic courtship of Castro seemed a petty pursuit for so great a power." Would it be petty if Russia set up its technicians in Cuba, made it a real base of subversive activity in the Americas? Would...
...argues that the real enemies of disarmament are the Rockefellers and Civil Defense Directors who ask for bigger and better bomb shelters and the "militarists" who ask for larger and larger sums for larger and larger weapons. But, leaving aside the problem of the relative guilt of Rockefeller or Khrushchev in promoting the arms race, it seems to me that Cowan and his supporters, in criticizing those who argue the inevitability of war, are just as wrong in assuming the inevitability of peace...
Eyewitness to History (CBS), which takes up the top news story of each week and analyzes it in respectable detail, is a good example of the sort of first-rate service television can perform. After beginning two weeks ago with an effective contrast of Ike's and Khrushchev's approaches to the U.N., the show last week turned to the Congo, using material that CBS crews had gone to Africa to get. As mpressive as the show itself is its young analyst-narrator, Charles Kuralt, 25, who wrote a human interest column for the Charlotte, N.C. News before...
...Khrushchev continually cites the United States as the cultural and economic ideal which he is striving to at- Taylor commented. On the other American leaders stress either or regaining supremacy Russia, depending on their party...