Word: khrushchevism
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...route to the U.S. in 1960 as part of the entourage accompanying Nikita Khrushchev, Shevchenko hears the bumptious Premier mutter threats against the life of then U.N. Secretary-General, Dag Hammarskjold, who died mysteriously in a plane crash in the Congo a year later...
...West, there has been a view that Khrushchev undertook the Cuban operation at the instigation of the military. This is incorrect. Khrushchev imposed an arbitrary decision on the political and military leaders. They were not interested in "quick fixes" and surrogate nuclear missile capability. They wanted solid, long-range programs to achieve parity with the U.S. in both quantity and quality of strategic nuclear weaponry and later to pursue superiority. That would take time and would involve astronomical expense, but there was no risk. But such expenditures would inevitably undermine Khrushchev's plans to aid the consumer. Khrushchev had unrealistically...
...himself by playing fly on the wall. In the White House, President John F. Kennedy muses, "It took me two years before I figured out that Harry Truman was Harry Truman's real name. I thought he was being informal and was really Harold Truman." At the Kremlin, Nikita Khrushchev admonishes his journalist son-in-law, "Does Izvestiya have to be boring? I suppose so, otherwise I would send you to Gulag." But Buckley's most cutting remarks come from newspapers of the day: Columnist Walter Lippmann assures his readers, " 'The present Cuban military buildup is not capable of offensive...
Ustinov earned the prestigious award a second time in 1961, from Nikita Khrushchev for his work in ensuring that the first man to orbit the earth was a Soviet cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin. The irascible Soviet Premier valued Ustinov's managerial skills enough to appoint him First Deputy Premier and place him in control of the civilian economy in 1963. When Leonid Brezhnev took power, Ustinov returned to the defense industry and took charge of developing the Soviet Union's strategic bomber force and intercontinental ballistic missile system...
DIED. Edward Crankshaw, 75, British scholar who turned out 16 graceful, lively, popular histories and biographies on such subjects as Nikita Khrushchev, Austria's Habsburgs, Germany's Bismarck and Authors Leo Tolstoy and Joseph Conrad; of cancer; in Hawkhurst, England...