Word: khrushchevism
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...vast majority of delegates in the high-domed Assembly hall broke into applause, Khrushchev, with a mocking leer, began to hammer his clenched fist on his green-topped desk. Whirling in surprise, stolid Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko stared at his boss for a second, then hastily assumed a dutiful grin and began to pound away himself...
...Cheerleader. A few hours later Khrushchev resumed his cheerleading at an attraction more to his liking: a 4½-hour anti-U.S. farrago by Cuba's Fidel Castro. Castro made the first of several hundred misstatements of fact when he declared royally that "we" will "endeavor to be brief." As he speechified on and on, more than half his audience, notably including India's Jawaharlal Nehru, gradually drifted out of the Assembly. But Khrushchev with grim determination hung on, saluted savage Castro blasts at the U.S. by raising his right arm. Each time...
...among the African countries, Khrushchev only raised hackles by his obstinate attempt to act like a spokesman for a group that had already rejected his right to do so. With the exception of Ghana's Nkrumah (who suggested that perhaps the U.N. should have three deputy Secretary-Generals), no one showed even faint enthusiasm for the Soviet plan to reorganize Hammarskjold out of a job. Khrushchev's airy claim that he and Tito had "fully" patched up their longstanding quarrel was belied by his own implicit admission that, in fact, they had not come to terms...
Nkrumah, emerging from his third session with Khrushchev in a week, admitted somewhat unhappily that so far their discussion had produced "no conclusions...
...Cool, Boy. Khrushchev's temper seemed to worsen as the week wore on; he had the air of a man looking for a target. The target appeared in the shape of Britain's urbane Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. who flew into New York last week determined, against the advice of his own Foreign Office, to dispense calm and conciliation.* (Just before his departure from London, Macmillan confided to a fellow Tory that his message for Khrushchev was epitomized in a song from West Side Story: "Get cool. boy. Got a rocket in your pocket/ Take it slow...