Word: nikita
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rostrum in the Kremlin's Great Hall waddled a stumpy figure in the dark green of a Soviet lieutenant general and sporting a chestful of medals. Sure enough, it was Nikita Khrushchev, epigrammatist, agriculturist, commissar, statesman-and now, it seemed, officially a war hero. It was the 20th anniversary of Hitler's invasion of Russia. According to the new history of World War II just off the press, none other than Nikita pressed Stalin in vain to change his tactics before the Nazis attacked in 1941. And who saved Stalingrad? "Great meritorious service in that connection was performed...
Border Bonfires. Everyone understood Nikita's problems. He had to keep Walter Ulbricht happy and hopeful, for beleaguered East Germany is still the machine shop of the Communist bloc, supplying tools, autos and heavy equipment to virtually all the satellite nations in the COMECON trade partnership. Khrushchev was also under pressure to produce a success of some kind for October's 22nd Party Congress in Moscow, when all his policies will come under scrutiny...
Whatever else Albania's Red Boss Enver Hoxha might be, he has proved himself a spunky fellow. Who else would dare walk into the big international Communist powwow in Moscow last November and call Nikita Khrushchev a "revisionist" to his face? Indeed, Hoxha's blasphemy went even farther, according to a partial transcript of his speech that reached the outside world last week...
...technicians pouring into Tirana, Peking has its first foothold in Europe. And the two new pals seem to be drawing closer together all the time, as Moscow must have noticed with a wince last week. While the press and radio of every other Communist country ran long excerpts of Nikita Khrushchev's TV fireside chat, there was not even a mention of it in the propaganda organs of Peking and Tirana...
...most powerful woman in Russia, and hence the official ideal for all others, is Minister of Culture Ekaterina Furtseva, 50, wife, mother, only female on the all-powerful Party Presidium-and one of Nikita Khrushchev's closest chums...