Word: khrushchevism
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...sometimes later. Franklin Roosevelt had no idea when he was taking his oath of office in 1933 that in a hundred days he would remake the U.S. Government. John Kennedy, enamored of foreign affairs, suddenly had the civil rights storm breaking around his head, and instead of Nikita Khrushchev he was trying to figure out Police Chief Bull Connor and his Birmingham dogs. Maybe Richard Nixon, the old Commie fighter, could see down the road three years to the day when he would be in Peking toasting his Chinese enemies and then in Moscow talking about limiting nuclear weapons...
...spite of these setbacks, the Soviet planners seem determined to furnish the people with enough bread and to prevent the mass slaughter of livestock for lack of feed grains. President Leonid Brezhnev is unwilling to risk a repetition of the demonstrations over food shortages that shook Nikita Khrushchev in 1962, when Russian workers painted USE KHRUSHCHEV FOR SAUSAGE MEAT on factory walls. To avoid reducing supplies to minimal levels, the Soviet leaders are expected to spend precious dollars and other hard currency on importing about 40 million metric tons of grain this year...
Reagan, said Italian Premier Giovanni Spadolini, "speaks in anecdotes and proverbs, and in this he reminds one a bit of Khrushchev." Reagan might not have relished the comparison...
...Resolutely antiCommunist, Pella served as Premier during a critical five-month period in 1953-54 when a border dispute with Yugoslavia over Trieste prompted him to make Italy's only postwar threat to use military force. As Foreign Minister in 1960, he once had a conversation with Nikita Khrushchev in which he rebuffed the Soviet Premier's contentions with a curt "Sorry for you, but the Italian line on foreign policy is superior, thank...
...observe with a foreigner's freshness. He remembers the early Iron Curtain: a chicken-wire fence in an old couple's garden, preventing imperialist rabbits of the British Zone from devouring the Voik's lettuce. He recalls the angst of a zealous Red poet when Khrushchev denounced Stalin: "In a fit of self-loathing he wished to be a lumberjack in some remote country like Norway. Very shortly after that, he was introduced to a Norwegian lumberjack who wanted nothing more than to leave his backwoods existence and be a poet engaged in the battles...