Word: nikita
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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National Affairs, which analyzes Nikita Khrushchev's spectacle of vilification in Sverdlov Hall and what effect it has had on himself, the world and the presidential campaigns of both Republicans and Democrats...
...Chunky Nikita Khrushchev took off on one of his "great flights" last week, swooping down to attack the President of the U.S. on a level of invective without precedent even in cold-war diplomacy. The attack was no vodka-party indiscretion, no impulsive reaction to provocation, but a premeditated assault, carried out in front of 400 Russian and foreign newsmen at a Khrushchev press conference in the Kremlin's domed Sverdlov Hall.* With Communist newsmen serving as a claque, Khrushchev's sallies drew such loud laughter that a listener outside the door of Sverdlov Hall might have thought...
...Strange & Incomprehensible." One widespread Western response to Khrushchev's attack on the President was to wonder whether Nikita was "going nuts," as the New York Daily News bluntly put it. "On this assumption," wrote the New York Times's Arthur Krock, "the West must be prepared to protect itself from the very special menace of a deranged operator of a destructive military machine...
Given the primitive state of their art. Kremlinologists still could not exclude the simpler explanation offered last week by Nikita himself. Said Khrushchev: "I talked with Mikoyan over the telephone just yesterday from Pitsunda [on the Black Sea coast], where he is taking his vacation. He told me: 'Nikita Sergeevich. come on down. The weatheriswonderful...
...floor of the U.S. Senate last week, the Republican minority leader rose in partisan wrath. "Well-placed, well-timed torpedo!" cried Illinois' Senator Everett Dirksen, hotly declaring that Democrat Adlai E. Stevenson had helped Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev wreck the summit conference by presenting Khrushchev with the thought that he could ignore Ike and deal better with the next U.S. President...