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...Said Nikita Khrushchev to U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson at a special conference last week in the Kremlin: "If we all keep our heads and do nothing provocative, we can find a way out of our problems in Laos." For 90 minutes Khrushchev and Thompson went over the Soviets' long-delayed reply to the Anglo-U.S. offer of negotiated peace in the faraway Southeast Asia state that is sundered by Communist attack. The Soviets accepted the proposal, more or less, announcing their decision in a note to London, and agreed to join Britain in an "appeal for a cessation...
...agreement cracked like a broken spring after ten days of mounting tension that saw John Fitzgerald Kennedy matched off against Nikita Khrushchev in a classic war of nerves. The war was fought against a sizable buildup of U.S. forces all across the Pacific. Tempers sharpened as the U.S. passed quiet word of deadlines that were just as quietly ignored by the Russians. The U.S. set out to rally its allies at the SEATO meeting in Bangkok while the Russians met secretly with theirs at a meeting of the War, saw Pact countries. With a loose agreement to negotiate, neither Kennedy...
...what cannot be gained or held on the battlefield." Says the President: "I'm interested in what our objectives are, not the military struggle." Despite the setbacks in his first major crisis, he has determined on one single-minded answer to the single-minded challenge he reads into Nikita Khrushchev: the U.S. must win the cold...
...Nikita Khrushchev, addressing party conference...
...celluloid gut-spillers were a rousing commercial success-about the only dramatic success in a season of frightful failure. Producer David Susskind's tenuous empire was tottering: his Witness was canceled in midseason, his fatuous debate with Nikita Khrushchev drew critical scorn. As Susskind's hair began to thin and his pockets bulged, his image as TV's angry young rebel became less convincing, but his influence still pervaded the industry, and his Open End consistently demonstrated that conversation, if intelligent, can be entertaining. Jackie Gleason was miserably miscast as the M.C. of an ill-fated...