Word: nikita
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...paucity of facts in Moscow lends a certain credibility to every rumor about the Kremlin, especially when it concerns the supposed ups and downs of Nikita Khrushchev.* Thus it was last week that a whisper from Moscow via Rome became a blast of hot air felt around the world...
...Italy's Communist newspaper L'Unitá, which soberly described Soviet troubles in domestic and foreign affairs and at one point permitted itself the flat assertion that "Moscow is living through a delicate and interesting political moment." Rome's volatile press erupted with screaming headlines predicting Nikita's imminent downfall. Big papers in New York, London and Paris gave way to similar speculation...
...bearded Cuban talked on for seven hours to Claude Julien. 37. foreign news chief of Paris' influential Le Monde. When Julien published the interview last week, it stirred a missile crisis all its own in Havana. Fidel might have been kidding about wanting to bust Nikita in the snoot, but he obviously felt that his Moscow comrade Khrush had played him for a double sucker last October-once when he planted the missiles in Cuba, and again when he took them out without consulting the bearded Maximum Leader in advance. "We had envisaged the possibility of asking the Soviet...
Next, it was Nikita Khrushchev's turn to peddle two other U.S. items: potato chips and cornflakes. Almost wistfully, he paused in a report to recall his trip to the U.S. in 1959, and how "we sat there in the plane, talking and munching factory-made fried potato chips. They were nutritious and tasty. And they are cheap." Khrushchev's plug for cornflakes was equally enthusiastic. Many people in the U.S. and Britain, he reported, happily breakfast on "vitaminized flakes of corn which are eaten with milk." Unfortunately, he added, "we consume corn in niggardly amounts because industry...
Most Russian intellectuals listened in tight-lipped silence as word of Nikita Khrushchev's latest cultural crackdown (TIME, March 22) filtered out to the provinces. Not so the writers and artists of Leningrad, Russia's second city. When the local commissars met to give them the word, the intellectuals talked right back...