Word: khrushchevism
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...banned from the air by Poughkeepsie, N.Y.'s station WEOK. WEOK's deejays are now to be known as "musicasters." ¶ Admiral Arleigh Burke, Chief of Naval Operations, announced that he would henceforth spell "Communism" with a "K," just like the Russians. Why? Explained the admiral: Khrushchev in the Kremlin bosses Kommunists everywhere, and his spelling would identify "Kommu-nism for what it is-a foreignism that will never be accepted voluntarily by free people." Prescribed for Admiral Burke by New York's unkonvinced Herald Tribune: "A little cruise at sea with plenty of K-rations...
...would want to live all my life in Paris if there was not this earth which is called Moscow," said Nikita Khrushchev in Paris last week, quoting the Russian poet, Vladimir Mayakovsky. But though Khrushchev was over the flu, in Paris he was still capable of catching a chill...
...Metro stations below his route had been closed for an hour while engineers tested them for hidden bombs. A noisy barrage of 64 motorcycle cops boxed in his limousine. Even if there had been no guards around him at all, there would stiH have been a wall between Khrushchev and his hosts...
...originally been woven for Napoleon's Josephine, he plunged into a round of handshakes in his now familiar manner-a quick look down for the hand, a look up for the owner, a short shake, and then onward. Behind him came friendly, roly-poly Mme. Nina Petrovna Khrushchev in black astrakhan coat and pillbox hat, her arms full of orchids. The rest of the family trooped in afterward-Daughters Julia, Rada and Elena, Son Sergei and Son-in-Law Alexei Adzhubei, editor of Izvestia. It was the first time since 1896 that a Russian ruler had visited Paris...
Unexploded Bomb. "Well, here you are," said General de Gaulle, face to face with a man who like himself had become a cartoonists' delight (see cuts). "We are ready to hear you and to be heard by you." Quicker than a wink, Khrushchev plunked his glasses on his nose, whipped out a thick manuscript. He paid pointed tribute to President de Gaulle as the man who had not "bowed his head to the [German] occupiers." If France and the Soviet had only had a firmer alliance, he said, blandly ignoring his own country's 1939 pact with Hitler...