Word: kremlinologists
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...remains Ambassador to Yugoslavia till the end of the month, but when George Kennan, 59, strolled out of the State Department building last week, his on-again, off-again diplomatic career was off again. After goodbyes to such friends as McGeorge Bundy, Averell Harriman and President Kennedy, the noted Kremlinologist was off to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N. J. Kennan is wavering between doing a book on Soviet foreign policy during the last years of the Stalin era or chucking contemporary punditry to "become a real historian and go way back into the 19th century...
...Security Council executive committee into conference at Hyannisport. One by one and two by two they arrived-Rusk, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, Joint Chiefs Chairman Maxwell Taylor, Deputy Defense Secretary Roswell Gilpatric, Under Secretary of State George Ball, Bobby Kennedy, White House Adviser McGeorge Bundy, Special Counsel Ted Sorensen, Kremlinologist Llewellyn E. Thompson
...than once: Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev. He has planted his cronies in key positions everywhere. Even before the full-scale battle with the "antiparty group" in 1957, more than 70 of the members of the Central Committee owed their careers to Khrushchev or were his close friends. In fact, one Kremlinologist suggests that "Khrushchev's institutional strength probably exceeds anything that Stalin ever achieved...
GEORGE FROST KENNAN, 57, Pulitzer-prize winning Kremlinologist (Russia Leaves the War), onetime Ambassador to Moscow (1952), top cold war strategist who shaped the U.S. containment policy and the Marshall Plan. In a sharp policy disagreement with John Foster Dulles, he was shunted aside in 1953 after 25 years in the Foreign Service. He became a professor at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, now is back in diplomacy as Ambassador to Yugoslavia, one of the cold war's key vantage points...
...getting harder and harder to keep score on how many times Nikita Khrushchev had rattled his war rockets. One Kremlinologist got the count up to nearly 150 times in the past five years-and that was before last week's big flurry. Cock-a-hoop over his cosmonauts, a little miffed perhaps that the rest of the world was not giving him what he regarded as his due, and possibly feeling a little frustrated over the West's stubborn resistance on Berlin. Nikita Khrushchev was in a real rocket-banging tantrum...