Word: khrushchevism
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...direction of Assistant Managing Editor Ronald Kriss, hundreds of pages of reporting on Brezhnev and the succession began to arrive from correspondents, notably Moscow Bureau Chief Erik Amfitheatrof, Washington Correspondent Bruce Nelan, who had just returned from Moscow, and Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott, who had translated Nikita Khrushchev's memoirs...
...zest for life. Until illness intervened, he smoked incessantly and drank vodka toast after vodka toast without showing so much as a sign of weakness. Richard Nixon was impressed, unfavorably, by Brezhnev's love of dirty jokes and his earthy humor, characteristics that Brezhnev shared with Khrushchev...
Some time last Thursday the anniversary passed, and a memory etched 20 years ago came sharply back to mind. It was the day the Cuban missile crisis ended. Nikita Khrushchev's astonishing message about the weapons ("We instructed our officers to dismantle them, and to return them to the Soviet Union") lifted the clouds of crisis. John Kennedy, tired but quietly jubilant, stood in the bright October sun on the porch outside the Oval Office where he and his aides had fashioned a solution during 13 days of nail-biting cerebration. Kennedy thrust his hands deep into his coat...
...Institute for Space Studies, has asserted in a recent New York Times Magazine article that "since Sputnik, Moscow has undertaken a massive military space program that appears designed to do nothing less than control space." But apart from shadowy references to a 1957 speech by then-Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, Jastrow's case against the USSR relied mainly on speculation...
Periodically TIME presents its readers with an advance look at the memoirs of famous men. Excerpts first appeared in TIME from such works as Soviet Chairman Nikita Khrushchev's Khrushchev Remembers: The Last Testament (1974), Anwar Sadat's In Search of Identity (1978), and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's White House Years (1979) and Years of Upheaval (1982). In this issue, TIME offers Part 1 of a two-part serialization of Jimmy Carter's Keeping Faith, the former President's personal account of his years in the Oval Office...