Word: nikita
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soviet officialdom, the Russians granted a visa only to Powers' father Oliver, who runs a shoe repair shop in Norton, Va. Powers' wife Barbara, 24, spent three anxious months importuning the U.S. State Department for help, pleading with Soviet embassy officials, even sending a personal appeal to Nikita Khrushchev...
...same"). While Nixon took on special presidential commissions and presided over the Cabinet in the days of Ike's illnesses. Lodge carefully steered the U.S. and the West through U.N. world tempests from Indo-China to Budapest to Suez. Nixon's tough, unflinching "kitchen conference" with Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow last summer was matched by Lodge's assignment as Khrushchev's official companion during his U.S. tour. (Khrushchev's favorite cry: "Where's my capitalist?") Both men have learned by first hand experience how to deal with Communists (drawing on his journalistic experience. Lodge...
...three Western leaders have another consideration in mind. They worry that Nikita Khrushchev may have concluded that between now and November U.S. policy will be paralyzed and he would have a good opportunity to create a new crisis over Berlin. The meetings of Europe's Big Three were deliberately calculated to indicate to Khrushchev that there is no vacuum in Western policy despite U.S. elections, that the West is keeping a vigilant eye on Berlin and the West's concerns...
...Soviet visa. But "three third secretaries" had told her that they had heard nothing from Moscow. Said she despondently, "His letters have such an air of sadness-as though he is just doomed." At week's end, Barbara, through her lawyer, cabled a personal plea to Nikita Khrushchev...
...loftiest goal, his mother is positive that "he still reads the sport pages first thing in the morning." His public career has given her several bad turns, especially when the Vice President got embroiled in his celebrated "kitchen debate" with Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow last year: "My, that Khrushchev was so fierce! Looking at the newspaper pictures, I thought he was going to poke Richard in the nose. But Richard never flinched." How does she feel when Nixon's political foes take potshots at him? Looking ahead to the forthcoming presidential campaign, she testily said: "Certainly they aren...