Word: sovietizers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...everybody is agreed" to a summit meeting and that everything seems to be clear except fixing "the date and the place and the people." And on a brief stopover in Moscow on the way from Washington to Peking, Khrushchev himself spoke of Dwight Eisenhower in language of a kind Soviet leaders have never before applied to a Western statesman. Said Khrushchev: "I must say that the President of the U.S. showed statesmanlike wisdom, courage and will power in assessing the present international situation . . . He is a man who enjoys the absolute confidence of his people...
...Changsha, the largest city in the province, and a hotbed of radical nationalism. Though Mao was some four years older than Liu, they worked together on a left-wing student magazine, and by his early 205 Liu was a veteran of anti-imperialist student demonstrations. In 1920 a Soviet talent scout, encountering Liu in Shanghai, picked him as one of seven promising Chinese students to attend Moscow's newly opened Far Eastern University...
Nothing But a Line. No less important was the fact that Peking's mulish behavior both at home and abroad had strained relations with its Soviet Big Brother. Devoutly Communist as Peking professes to be, there have always been tensions between Russia and Red China-a fact that emerges clearly from the comments of Russian technicians who have worked in China. "In little ways," says a Soviet chemist, "the Chinese showed us up, and sometimes behind our backs they called us Big Noses, as if we were no better than oldtime imperialists...
...official Soviet announcement was a mixture of specific information and cagey reticence. "The launching was done," it said, "by means of a multistage rocket carrying an automatic interplanetary station. After reaching the necessary speed, the last stage of the rocket put the station into the required orbit...
...apparently means that the third-stage rocket has apparatus for turning itself in space and firing small rockets to correct its course, either by obedience to radio orders from the ground or under the instruction of its own inertial guidance system. After the course had been corrected, said the Soviet announcement, the rocket was detached from the station-most likely to keep it from interfering with the "station's" radio transmission-but it followed along on a very similar course. Unless the station has guiding apparatus of its own, the rocket will presumably follow it around the moon...