Word: nikita
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...times, British statesmen, like British mountaineers, seem driven to climb the summit for no better reason than because it's there. This thought struck Germany's Chancellor Adenauer last week as Prime Minister Macmillan, fresh from leading the U.N. Assembly battle against a rampageous Nikita Khrushchev, briskly informed Britain's Tories: "We must try to get back to the mood of last spring. Negotiations on Berlin and Germany must be resumed...
...first man ever to take off his shoe and use it for a gavel at the U.N. last week gathered 12,000 of the faithful in the Lenin Sports Palace in Moscow and gave his candid opinion of the international body. "A terrible organization!" said Nikita Khrushchev, all but shuddering at the memory. "If you could see how the delegates behave! They get much money and spent much time in restaurants with their wives. They do not participate in work, but just sit there and wait around in case there's any voting. One important head of a delegation...
...Burma, feel themselves heirs to ancient civilizations. Sweden and Nor way are welfare states with highly developed technologies, while Afghanistan and Nepal have only begun to brush aside the mists of feudalism. Secretary of State Christian Herter recently, and unnecessarily, abandoned Ghana and Guinea to the Communist camp. Nikita Khrushchev sneers at the Philippines and Argentina as U.S. puppets...
Among the gaggle of satellite Communist bosses trotting at Nikita Khrushchev's heels in Manhattan, one was conspicuously odd man out. Red Premier Mehmet Shehu of Albania was not on the Baltika's passenger list, got to Manhattan as an ordinary passenger on the S.S. Queen Elizabeth. At a Communist Czech reception, Shehu stood forlornly in a corner, studiously avoided by everybody except the State Department security man assigned as his bodyguard. And when, at a party given by the Rumanian Reds, Khrushchev took his satellite cronies into a back room for a chat, the door was shut...
...between rocket-rattling sessions, Nikita Khrushchev sometimes shows a genuine fear of nuclear war and no longer argues that only the other side would get hurt. This more considered position seems to be the cold calculation of the Soviet military itself, to judge by an article published in Moscow's monthly International Life by Major General Nikolai Talensky of the Soviet General Staff. Writes Gen eral Talensky...