Word: likes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nixon: When we can agree on disarmament with adequate inspection, then we can talk about the question of bases. Now I'd like to ask you a question...
Nixon (as the electrician began to shout): He's like Mr. Khrushchev-he always gets the last word...
...Eggs. Next day Nixon and his swelling entourage-"This is beginning to look like Coxey's Army," cracked one U.S. correspondent-headed east to Russia's great Siberian hinterland, where the earth is black and rich, and sunflowers (grown for their commercial oil) lattice the countryside with gold. Here, in "closed" cities that no Americans save a handful of dignitaries have been allowed-to visit in years, Nixon's trip turned into an impromptu triumph...
...hecklers' assault began at a hydroelectric dam near Novosibirsk, where 30-year-old Electrician Grigory Fedorovich Belousov thrust himself forward and proclaimed belligerently: "The Soviet Union has no military bases outside her borders, but the U.S. has many in foreign countries. Why is that, I'd like to know...
Quickly, a reporter moved in: "How would you like to fly to the U.S. in it?" At that point, with careful casualness, Russia's boss drew Washington's attention to the chief reason he had been willing to allow the Soviet man in the street opportunity to cheer Richard Nixon. "This plane or some other one." he shrugged. "That is not a question of principle." How soon did he want to visit the U.S.? "When the time is ripe," said Nikita. "In good time...