Word: khrushchevism
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...parried the ones on Cuba, refused to be riled by Khrushchev's promise that the Red flag would soon fly over the whole world, dismissed Khrushchev's "very crude attempts to involve himself" in U.S. politics, praised New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller ("a dedicated, honest and hard-working man") even as he disagreed with Rocky's sharp criticism of U.S. defenses. Next day the President flew from steaming Washington to the breeze-cooled summer White House at Newport, on Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay, for a month-long working vacation...
...week's end Khrushchev's rocketrattling support of Castro's Cuba struck Eisenhower as a threat that demanded a fast reply. "I affirm in the most emphatic terms that the U.S. will not be deterred from [its] responsibility by the threats Mr. Khrushchev is making," said he. "Nor will the U.S., in conformity with its treaty obligations, permit the establishment of a regime dominated by international Communism in the Western Hemisphere...
Grotesquely mixing buffoonery with terror, Nikita Khrushchev waddled on last week through the lovely little country that is Austria. At his side, wherever he went, was Austria's embarrassed Chancellor Julius Raab. The favorite story in Vienna's cafés: one of Khrushchev's bodyguards asked an Austrian why Raab looked so gloomy. Replied the Austrian: "Too much friendship can be sickening...
Just Like Hitler. Khrushchev's portable platform was a scraggly, 15-bus convoy that wound through the peaceful Austrian countryside. For a starter, at the old Mauthausen concentration camp where 123,000 prisoners died, Khrushchev denounced German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer for "Hitler" policies and later elaborated on the theme: "Hitler opened his mouth and wanted to swallow everybody. Adenauer licks his lips, he gets angry, but he cannot move from the spot. Should he attempt to touch the Socialist countries, he will be smashed immediately on the spot. Immediately...
...mammoth VOeEST steel works (formerly the Hermann Goring plant), Khrushchev exploded when told it had been rebuilt with Marshall Plan dollars. "Who will help you?" he cried. "The United States? No! Britain? No! West Germany? No! The capitalistic countries think of Austria as a competitor. We of the Soviet Union cooperate...