Word: nikita
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that Nikita Khrushchev launched his grandiose "virgin lands" gamble. Part of the plan was to plow up 32 million acres of marginal land in Kazakhstan, and settle it with Communist "pioneers," who were to plant and produce huge quantities of desperately needed grain within two years...
...Nikita Khrushchev, to whose realistic appraisal of the totality of thermonuclear warfare and respect for human life you and I, as well as a billion others in the northern hemisphere, owe an expression of gratitude that we are still alive...
...hear all the talk, Cuba had once again become just one of those balmy-breezed Caribbean isles. In Moscow, Nikita Khrushchev happily declaimed that no-indeed-Cuba-was-not-a-Soviet-defeat. In Paris, at NATO's meetings, allied nations heaped congratulations upon U.S. State Secretary Dean Rusk for the firm American action. In Washington, the Kennedy Administration broke out with holiday grins and congratulations for itself. "Something," exulted one New Frontiersman, "has gone right...
Approaching the painter of an avantgarde canvas titled Self-Portrait, Khrushchev asked, "Have you a mother?" "She's dead," stammered the artist. Replied Nikita: "She would die a second time if she saw your self-portrait." He spotted another objectionable work. "How much was paid for it?" inquired the Premier. Told the price was 3,000 rubles, he cried: "Deduct it from the salaries of those who approved the purchase...
Lamour himself now spends much of his time lecturing away from home or escorting distinguished visitors over dams and through fields and orchards. Nikita Khrushchev, after such a visit, paid the Midi man a cherished compliment. "The man who astonished me the most in all France," said he, "was Philippe Lamour. He's the only Frenchman who could stand...