Word: nikita
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...marital debating tricks are quite so outrageously effective as that of goading a spouse to near frenzy, then coolly inquiring: "For goodness' sake, what are you shouting about?" Last week Nikita Khrushchev elevated this domestic ploy to a diplomatic technique...
...sought ways to cope with his threats to Berlin, Khrushchev called a press conference in the Sverdlov Hall of the Great Kremlin Palace to explain that he had been grievously misunderstood. Nattily turned out in a dark business suit enlivened by two gold "Hero of the Soviet Union" medals, Nikita spent two hours adroitly fielding questions from 300 Russian and a handful of Western newsmen. The notion that he had given the West an ultimatum to get out of Berlin by May 27, he said, was "an unscrupulous interpretation of our position." How had the six months deadline come about...
Most Favored Nation. Caught somewhat in the middle was Soviet Russia. Last week, "pained" at the anti-Communist shouts of Communism's first Middle East beneficiary, Nikita Khrushchev blandly complained that Nasser was only fussing because the Iraqis would not let him annex their country. Though relations with Nasser "will continue as before," said Khrushchev, "our sympathy with Iraq is greater," because "Iraq has a more progressive order of things...
...Nikita Khrushchev proclaimed his wish to continue supporting Nasser, but at his press conference on Berlin threw in a few side remarks about the dictator of the Nile that were meant to wound and were bound to sting. "President Nasser," said Khrushchev, "is a rather young man and rather hotheaded, and he took upon himself more than his stature permitted. He shouldn't do it. He might strain himself...
...Sleeve. Obviously Nikita Khrushchev had not overnight abandoned his belief that "Social Democrats are the worst enemies of the working class." nor were the Socialists of Western Europe eager to revive their prewar Popular Front with the Communists: too many of their comrades have died in Arctic prison camps. Nonetheless, Socialists continue to tug at the sleeve of the conservative governments of their countries with insistent demands for Western "flexibility" in negotiations with Russia...