Word: nikita
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...With no hardship at all, Republican Incumbent George Christopher, 52, walloped Democratic Tax Assessor Russell Wolden, 49, by more than 50,000 votes. Greek-born George Christopher, who showed his abilities during his first term and enhanced his position when he rang in a warm San Francisco welcome for Nikita Khrushchev (cabled Khrushchev: "Had I been a citizen of your beautiful city, I would undoubtedly have voted for you"), had the city in his pocket virtually from the beginning, even though registration is overwhelmingly Democratic. In his wild-swinging campaign, Opponent Wolden accused Christopher's administration of permitting...
...summit conference will not take place this winter, as Eisenhower and Macmillan apparently desired. It will instead take place during the spring, as General de Gaulle desired, with the exact time and place at de Gaulle's pleasure. Nikita Khrushchev, who will also attend, has not been consulted about these plans for the diplomatic season, but he is inclined to show up when invited, "any place, any time...
...West Germany in 1945, but shuttled back and forth in various disguises between Munich and the Ukraine, bringing encouragement and funds to the partisan army, which fought on for four more years before being finally subdued by the Soviets. (Stalin's vice-lord for suppressing the Ukrainians: Nikita Khrushchev...
...people, Dr. Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, took up a Christian cudgel in defense of Nikita Khrushchev. Speaking to members of the British Council of Churches (representing many Protestant denominations), the archbishop decried the fact that no eminent Christian group has endorsed Khrushchev's total disarmament proposals at the U.N. (TIME, Sept. 28). Declared His Grace: "No Christian could possibly have put forward a better plan than this. Mr. Khrushchev could not more effectively have read the New Testament...
...with Vice President Richard Nixon on his 1953 trip to Australia and Asia, last spring more than 80 followed him to Russia, eliciting from the Vice President the complaint that he could not easily hold background briefings, a Nixon practice, for so large a number. And when Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev toured the U.S. this fall, so many correspondents and cameramen - 300-odd in all - dogged his trail that they sometimes seemed more to be making the show than covering it (TIME...