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...Moscow last week, Nikita Khrushchev not only waved his 50-megaton bomb and derided capitalism; he also crowed about "disunity" among the Western Allies. "Major contradictions divide the U.S.A. and Britain and other imperialist states," he said. "They appear both in NATO and in other aggressive blocs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cold War: Strength in Disunity | 10/27/1961 | See Source »

Broken Windows. After the visiting Communist VIPs filed onstage beneath a giant silvery head of Lenin embossed on purple plastic, the 13 members of the Soviet Party Presidium came on from stage left, headed by a fit-looking, somewhat thinner Nikita Khrushchev. "I propose we begin to work," said Party Secretary Khrushchev briskly. "The 22nd Congress is now in session...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communists: One-Third of the Earth | 10/27/1961 | See Source »

...another 20 years. By 1980, he promised, the gross national product will have grown fivefold, industrial production sixfold, and total farm output 3½ times. No one would then work long hours for low pay, and every family would have its own rent-free apartment. Best of all, Nikita promised that by 1965 each Russian would have the incredible bounty of "almost three pairs of shoes per year. "Some of the 1980 "miracles" compared with current U.S. levels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communists: One-Third of the Earth | 10/27/1961 | See Source »

Before taking up its positions on the rope, the Socialist tam huddles for a brief four-hour address by Nikita Sergeyevich...

Author: By Josiah LEE Auspite, | Title: Berlin Fantasy: Tug-of-War | 10/24/1961 | See Source »

Ugly Little Bill. What Kwame Nkrumah really discovered, when he got back home from his heady talks with Nikita Khrushchev and his glittering attendance at the Belgrade parley of the neutralist nonbloc, was the looming failure of his dream of a Nkrumah-controlled Pan African empire. His influence in the Congo had fallen away, and the expensive Ghana-subsidized alliance with Sékou Toure's Guinea and Modibo Keita's Mali was getting him nowhere. Moreover, the day was fast approaching when Ghana's dwindling exchequer would have to put up $226 million for the ambitious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ghana: Redeemer's Woes | 10/20/1961 | See Source »

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