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...Negotiable. Leaving plenty of room for Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to back down, the President reiterated: "We shall always be prepared to discuss international problems with any and all nations that are willing to talk, and listen, with reason. We have previously indicated our readiness to remove any actual irritants in West Berlin. But the freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say, 'What's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: Taking the Initiative | 8/4/1961 | See Source »

...Khrushchev for an unenlightening sidewalk chat that was trumpeted as "the only private interview the Russian leader granted during the Vienna stay." Televiewers used to seeing Lisa in her soapy serials blinked as she flung her arms around the rotund Russian, planted a kiss on his cheek and purred: "Nikita Serge-evich, I followed you to Vienna. Now, when will you let me come to Russia?" Replied the startled Khrushchev: "You are welcome there, and if you come, bring your President with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Beaver | 7/28/1961 | See Source »

...house slung beneath it and capable of carrying 180 infantrymen (biggest U.S. model, due next year, will lift only 100). Though some of the planes on display were already known to Western aviation experts, and others were simply old models with new touches, the flypast made bunk out of Nikita's boast that Russia had consigned its warplanes to junk. Judging by what they saw, Western observers concluded that the Russians are roughly on a par with the U.S. in the quality of their fighters, clearly ahead in variety, if not quantity, of supersonic bombers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Whoosh | 7/21/1961 | See Source »

Back in Moscow, Nikita Khrushchev, musing on Yuri's triumph, may well have decided that Gagarin's first flight into space would be his last: Public Relations Master Yuri was obviously too hot a talent to waste in space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Out of this World | 7/21/1961 | See Source »

...contest for young minds in backward countries, the University of Hawaii's East-West Center should have been an early winner. Billed as a magnet for Asian students, it was first proposed by U.S. Senator Lyndon Johnson in 1959-nearly a year before Nikita Khrushchev hatched Moscow's Friendship University (TIME, Jan. 6). Hawaii had the advantage of the island's proud multiracial harmony; Friendship University is a segregated school for Afro-Asians. Yet somehow the Russians scored all the propaganda coups. Hawaii's East-West Center foundered in big talk and bad planning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Awakening in Hawaii | 7/21/1961 | See Source »

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