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...Successfully countered Nikita Khrushchev's year-long campaign to bluff, panic and cajole the allies into an empty summit meeting designed only to divide allies and get Western acceptance of Communist conquests...
...Washington saw it, Russia's Nikita Khrushchev was backed into an embarrassing corner by the U.S.-NATO refusal to give up war-won rights to stay in West, Berlin. But he was not yet ready to give up the diplomatic battle. His potshots of the week...
...established leaders or governments emerged from this year of shattered patterns with enhanced prestige. Nikita Khrushchev, 1957's Man of the Year, had commanded the scientific resources to produce a Sputnik, but for all his promises and boasts, he could not solve or begin to solve his country's continuing agricultural crisis. In Red China, faced with his own agricultural crisis, Mao Tsetung launched 1958's most audacious political act, ordering his 650 million subjects into human anthills called "people's communes." But at year's end he was compelled to retreat, not because of popular resentment (which...
...this year his virgin-lands program paid off in a big harvest, and Nikita, ending an official Soviet statistic silence as to farm production that has lasted throughout his five-year reign, bragged that in 1958 the Soviet Union had harvested a 137 million-ton grain crop. He also asserted that this year Soviet milk production would top that of the U.S. for 1957, that Soviet butter production now surpassed the U.S.'s, that Soviet wool output was now 2.3 times that of the U.S. and second only to Australia's in the world. Only in meat production...
...pages. The document was peppered with dilatory phrases: "It takes time." "We should not be in a hurry." "We should wait a bit." "There is yet insufficient experience." "Socialism must continue for a long time before we achieve Communism." "We cannot prematurely and hastily carry out a changeover." Nikita Khrushchev must have enjoyed reading all this...