Word: khrushchevs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...KHRUSHCHEV IN PEKING...
...Pentagon papers trial of Daniel Ellsberg surfaced! As a defense witness, Sorensen testified that he, like Ellsberg, had removed classified information without authorization. When Sorensen left the White House in 1964, he took along 67 boxes of documents, seven of them classified. Included were memos on the Kennedy-Khrushchev summit meeting in Vienna, the war in Laos, the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban missile crisis. Sorensen used some of the material for his book Kennedy, then donated all of it to the Kennedy Library. He claimed a $231,000 tax deduction, part of which was rejected...
Pepsi's Soviet foray began with the 1959 Moscow trade fair, at which then Vice President Richard Nixon had his celebrated "kitchen debate" with Nikita Khrushchev. Donald M. Kendall, then head of Pepsi's international operations, persuaded Nixon to steer Khrushchev to the Pepsi kiosk, where the Soviet Premier downed eight bottles of Pepsi. When ordinary Russians also showed a thirst for the cola drink...
...proved its readiness to protect West Berlin as far back as the 1948 blockade, later American muscle-flexing quickly persuaded the Kremlin to back down from efforts to instigate crises. In 1961, by rushing U.S. tanks to the Brandenburg Gate and calling up reserve units, President Kennedy forced Nikita Khrushchev to abandon his plans to change the status of the divided city...
...scarcely avoid the charge that he has created a cult of personality that may soon rival that of Stalin or Mao. Brezhnev is comfortable in his hero's role, but, particularly in the Soviet Union, fame is fleeting. Stalin's name is not often mentioned, and Khrushchev's has been expunged from the official language. Yet when Khrushchev celebrated his own 70th birthday in 1964, it was Brezhnev who led the cheering: "Dear Nikita Sergeyevich, your marvelous deeds have won you the love of all our party, the whole Soviet people. This fills our hearts with...