Word: pravda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...life"), and displays a charming sense of humor when he describes the trip. In Paris, where he studied and wrote, Harrington adopted the innocently beguiling facial expressions of the French. He loves to tell anecdotes about experiences both here and abroad. He mentioned, for example, an article written in Pravda on the occasion of the Russian publication of The Other America. With obvious delight, Harrington quoted sections from the article: "Although Mr. Harrington is a bourgeois revisionist, he has portrayed the United States accurately. His only failing is that he has neglected the importance of the Communist vanguard in supporting...
...Brezhnev was kicked upstairs from the Secretariat to the largely ceremonial chairmanship of the Presidium of the party, which he adroitly used to keep his picture in Pravda. But at the June 1963 party plenum, Brezhnev was restored to the Secretariat, and thus became the only other full member of the Presidium (after Khrushchev) to hold state and party posts...
Soviet tourists who visited Cambridge last November have reported their largely negative impressions of this country in a recent edition of Komsomolskaya Pravda, the daily newspaper of the Communist youth movement...
...Komsomolskaya Pravda article, writen by four of the Russian visitors, notes that "Americans are very diversified... but the majority are very likeable people. In discussions they asked us different questions-if we had children, how we ate breakfast, what time we got up. The questions they asked were now and then, naive, but almost always sincere...
Knocking Opportunity. Another possibility was that Castro had raced off to Moscow to talk about Panama and the opportunities for stepped-up Communist subversion in Latin America. But other than the standard Pravda denunciations of "Yankee imperialism," there was little indication that Moscow was anxious to risk the fragile detente abuilding with the U.S. Khrushchev himself waited a full week before publicly mentioning Panama, then limited himself to a relatively mild attack: "Display some reason, gentlemen. Get out before it is too late, before you are chucked out." What seemed to aggravate Khrushchev far more was the recent CIA report...