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...Nikita Khrushchev was a man never short of bold ideas. In 1961. Dismayed at the pace of agricultural output, Khrushchev summarily promulgated one of his boldest: The Ministry of Agriculture would be relocated from its quarters in Moscow to a farm in Milkhailovskoe; similar plans were announced for the regional ministries of Agriculture and the Agricultural institute. "From the asphalt to the land," went the slogan. Innovation by shuffling location: surely, a bold idea. Also an incredibly stupid one, which created only greater chaos than had existed previously...
...Schorr interviewed Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. The interview was heralded at the time as ground-breaking; it was the first American television appearance by a Soviet leader...
With that focus on what Kennedy had to work with, Reeves has come up with fresh and fascinating material on the confrontations in Cuba, Berlin and Vietnam and on the "chummy" correspondence between Kennedy and Soviet boss Nikita Khrushchev after the Cuban missile crisis (Khrushchev confided, for example, that Kennedy's election victory over Richard Nixon "did not draw tears from our eyes...
THERE'S PERHAPS NO POINT TO POINT OF NO RETURN. It's a remake of an unimprovably stylish, very entertaining thriller -- La Femme Nikita -- that was released just two years ago. But hey, that was in French. Why not let people who hate subtitles in on the fun? Bridget Fonda is a sort of Dirty Harriet, a reprieved murderer turned into an elegant assassin by a mysterious government agency. She and her handler (Gabriel Byrne) fall into unconsummated love. She sublimates with gunplay while growing wistful for normality. John Badham's film seems to have more firepower and slightly softer...
...Hotchkiss, majored in Russian literature at Yale, and wrote a master's thesis on that subject at Oxford. Clinton first witnessed Talbott's expertise 24 years ago when he and Strobe, both Rhodes scholars, shared a sparsely furnished row house at Oxford University. Clinton often recalled watching Strobe translate Nikita Khrushchev's memoirs, and sustaining him with plates of scrambled eggs and biscuits and cups of coffee...