Word: sergeevich
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Moscow last week, amid quiet vodka toasts and cries of Mnogie leta! (Many years of life), Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev turned 68. Unlike Joseph Stalin, whose birthdays became vast public orgies of obeisance, Khrushchev celebrates his anniversaries in private. In fact, he had little reason to celebrate-and was under doctor's orders not to. Though four years younger than Stalin at the time of his death, Khrushchev has high blood pressure and a heart condition. Moscow rumors persist that he suffered a stroke in recent months; twice, after absences that were officially attributed to flu, Nikita has himself told...
...kind of drastic policy change or major party infighting that has marked many congresses in the past.* In 44 years and 15 Party Congresses since the October 1917 Revolution, Communism's inner hierarchy has never seemed more stable or more successful. Since the previous congress in 1959, Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev had routed the last implacable Stalinists from positions of power. In his major scheduled address about past accomplishments and future progress, he could point to Soviet industry and science riding a high curve of technological advance. Abroad, he could point to steady Communist erosion of the West...
...quite right, Nikita Sergeevich. I felt fine on the flight. Just like at home...
...Republic's youthful, dynamic Dmitry Polyansky, premier of the largest of the 15 Soviet republics, tried to put over his report by quoting a dirt farmer's lyrical letter to Khrushchev: "Affectionately our people call corn 'Nikita's daughter,' and in truth you, Nikita Sergeevich, gave corn its vital importance. I think we can compare corn, the queen of the fields, with a rocket that will thrust us into the orbit of Communist abundance and help us sooner to overtake America." But when Polyansky began talking about poor local corn harvests, Khrushchev interrupted: "Once...
...said bad weather cut corn yields, Khrushchev gave him a brutal verbal beating. "I'm certain, Comrade Podgorny, that the figures on corn yield you just cited are only for half the crop. The other half of the corn was stolen, torn up by the roots." "Correct, Nikita Sergeevich," cringed Podgorny. Roared Khrushchev: "So what has the weather to do with it? The crop was pilfered, stolen, and yet you say weather prevented growing a good harvest. Can we put it that way?" Podgorny: "We can." Khrushchev: "Then why didn't you mention...