Word: nikita
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...policy toward Cuba has been based on hope-the hope that Castro's Communism would somehow curl up its toes and die. In its most positive form, that policy aimed at isolating Cuba, both economically and politically. It did not work - for the simple and foreseeable reason that Nikita Khrushchev did not want...
...ring), a dinner with the family-U Thant allowed: "We covered a lot of ground." But as for any hope that Russia will fork out its share of the U.N. commitments, U Thant could only reply bleakly: "Chairman Khrushchev reiterated his traditional position regarding this matter." In other words, Nikita still considers the operations "illegal" and will pay none of their costs...
...including Stalinists Rakosi and Gero-for factionalism, and for crimes they had committed in the Stalin era (when Kadar himself was jailed and tortured by Red police, who castrated him and tore off his fingernails). It was the most sweeping move toward destalinization undertaken by any satellite country since Nikita Khrushchev put on the heat in his campaign against Stalin's image; Khrushchev quickly indicated his approval by promising to make a personal appearance beside Kadar at the Hungarian party congress in November...
Seldom had Moscow witnessed such a display of public affection. An exultant Nikita Khrushchev kissed both spacemen smack on the lips, followed in turn by Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan and other members of the Presidium, as well as Russia's two previous cosmonauts, Ma jor Yuri Gagarin and Major Gherman Titov. As young women pelted them with flowers, the "Heavenly Twins," as the So viet press dubbed the cosmonauts, then hugged and embraced their families. The band of the Moscow garrison played the Soviet national anthem, punctuated by a 2 1 -gun salute. On the 20-mile trip from...
...comfortable in space." Added Nikolayev with a grin: "Yes, fewer people and less noise." Khrushchev telephoned congratulations from his Black Sea vacation spot at Yalta, told Popovich that he had seen a picture of his bushily mustached father in Pravda. "Your father curls his mustaches like Taras Bulba," said Nikita. "What a Cossack! He seems to be saying, 'Give me a horse and saber...