Word: linings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sharp Answers. But Nikita Khrushchev was gaining understanding of a sort. He threw himself into his answers; he never faltered in setting down the Soviet line. He demonstrated clearly that he is no clown, although he knew how to draw a laugh when he wanted one. He stumbled-perhaps artfully-half a dozen times. Once he apologized for accidentally calling U.S. newsmen "comrades," once referred to the tenth anniversary of the revolution in "America" when he meant China. When he was asked about his celebrated "We will bury you" gibe at the U.S., Khrushchev explained calmly that capitalism was doomed...
Later in the afternoon, his unyielding line on Germany, on U.S. overseas bases and on U.S.S.R. censorship and radio jamming shook 26 members and guests of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called together for tea with the visitor by Chairman William Fulbright of Arkansas. Said Minnesota's Eugene McCarthy when the session was over: "He's a little like a candidate in the late stages of the campaign. He has heard all the questions many times, and his answers are sharp as hell...
...Hollywood movie colony so complete that even Eddie. Liz and Debbie were in the same room. Greek-born Spyros Skouras and Khrushchev got into a bumbling, emotional, unscheduled debate about how each had risen from their poorboy origins under their respective capitalist and Communist systems. Skouras scored the best line-"Your country is the greatest monopoly the world has ever known, colossal, colossal"-but Skouras' needling of Khrushchev brought audience cries of "Sit down," "Shut up" and "Let him alone...
...Ladies and gentlemen, you want to get up on this favorite horse of yours and proceed in the same old direction. If you want continuation of the arms race, then, very well, we accept that challenge. And as for the output of our rockets, those are on the assembly line...
...problem of supporting the five children (all under eight years old) of his Navy flyer son, who was killed recently in a carrier crash (another son is an Air Force B-52 pilot), turned in his resignation. Then he announced that in November he will become president of Grace Line...