Word: nikita
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although Johnson knew very well that many of his turn-away audiences would come out to see a stuffed whale or Nikita Khrushchev or any traveling curiosity, he still savored the tumult and the shouting. In Hutchinson, Kans., he turned up in a hotel room surrounded by local admirers, some wearing "Like That Lyndon" buttons. As the formation of a local "Johnson for President" club was announced to an obbligato of rebel yells, Lyndon, who refuses to announce that he is a candidate, stood at the sidelines, beaming...
...short nap, the talks went on through the late afternoon, dinner and evening-a total of 14 hours. It was, said Nehru, the longest sustained conversation he has ever had with anyone, and it touched on subjects ranging from the painting of Grandma Moses to the personality of Nikita Khrushchev...
...week that Soviet troops would remain in the country "as long as the international situation demands it," the guest of honor pulled off the earphones through which he had been listening to a translation of the speech. Asked by a neighbor if there was something wrong with the set, Nikita Khrushchev replied: "I know the story...
...impatient with the shabby, shoddy clothes so long accepted as the badge of well-dressed Soviet citizenship, Izvestia sent two reporters to a clothing industry convention at Riga (which considers itself "the Paris of the Baltic"). Helped perhaps by the fact that their editor is none other than Nikita Khrushchev's son-in-law, enterprising Aleksei Adzhubei (TIME, Sept. 21), the newsmen got some pungent answers to their queries as to why Soviet readymade clothes are so ill-styled, ill-tailored and ill-fitted...
...arrangements for press coverage of the eleven-country, 19-day good-will tour on which President Eisenhower left last week, Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty was acutely conscious of the press's tendency, when gathered in more than platoon strength, to get out of control. On Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's visit to the U.S. last September, some 300 correspondents and cameramen, eagerly vying for the same story, several times turned the tour into a journalistic wreck (TIME, Oct. 5). Jim Hagerty was determined that there would be no such sideshow on Ike's trip...