Word: nikita
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...Algerian war has brought out some of the least attractive free world characters: General Salan and Colonel Gardes, Colonel Leroy, Pierre Lagaillarde, and dozens of others. If I had the choice, I would rather be at the mercy of Nikita Khrushchev than that of Colonel Gardes or Pierre Lagaillarde. There must be many others who think the same...
...text, Kennedy took a speech delivered by Nikita Khrushchev to Communist Party groups in Moscow on Jan. 6, 1961. The President himself had read and reread the speech, memorizing whole passages. He considers it one of the most significant speeches ever made by Khrushchev-indeed, a Red blueprint for eventual world domination. Kennedy urged that every official in the Cabinet Room get a copy of the speech and study it. If some had already grasped Khrush's message, perhaps sooner than the President himself (who in early 1961 entertained some hopes of an accommodation with the U.S.S.R.), there...
...according to another version, he did not want to go, because the minor post in effect means exile. Either explanation fitted with Pravda's latest attack on Stalin's longtime Foreign Minister for his "dogmatic stubbornness" in opposing the "live, creative" Leninist line as preached by Nikita Khrushchev...
...Russians long ago learned that there is a big difference between what they see displayed in show windows and what they can actually buy. Nikita Khrushchev had promised every Russian citizen an average 97 sq. ft. of living space by 1970 (v. the present 75 sq. ft.*), and the new house's 430 sq. ft. for four people would more than fill the bill. But would the Soviet authorities divert enough materials and labor to produce the new house in quantity? Even as they queued up in the snow to inspect it last week, Russians were aware that except...
...news came in Washington, where Secretary of State Dean Rusk was proposing a change in U.S. policy. After all the talk of a new Berlin agreement, the U.S. seemed, in effect, ready to settle for the status quo-including the Wall. In exchange, the U.S. expected Nikita Khrushchev to relax some of his pressure on Berlin, agree informally to a modus vivendi that would leave Western rights in the city undisturbed...