Word: sovietizers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Despite Sputnik, the Soviet drive to scientific advancement is not as far advanced as many Americans believe-even the impressive new scientific center at Novosibirsk represents primarily a plan to uproot scientists in other cities and put them to work under government domination in Siberia; in its atomic power programs, the U.S.S.R. still uses old devices that the U.S. abandoned years...
...smilingly cordial. For questioners, Khrushchev had a full armory of chuckles, solemnities and playful jabs. Did he expect to address Congress? "I do not know whether the U.S. Congressmen want to listen to me . . ." When the A.P.'s Preston Grover asked if Eisenhower would be invited to visit Soviet missile bases, Khrushchev turned on him as if the reporter were some baneful survivor of a forgotten era: "If I was talking with the President with one rocket in one pocket and another rocket in another pocket, what hospitality would that...
...conservative National Democratic Union (U.D.N.). Topping off a round-the-world junket, Quadros followed Richard Nixon into Moscow, got himself a full 45 minutes with the jovial Nikita Khrushchev, came out to urge "the most rapid possible" resumption of diplomatic relations with Russia. Cockily, Janio added: "The Soviet Union gets its coffee from Africa and, judging from the taste, would greatly benefit by Brazilian trade...
Quadros' ploy neatly bracketed the position of his rival Lott, who is also backed by the Communists and came out against Brazilian-Soviet relations to forestall charges of making pacts with the Reds. Quadros fears no such label, can afford a play for increased trade. The idea was an immediate hit at home...
...Dealer Edith Gregor Halpert. Last month Mrs. Halpert had said some harsh things about Eisenhower's reservations concerning the exhibition ("Some people think the President's paintings aren't so good either. It's like Truman saying modern art resembles ham and eggs"). One Soviet critic jeeringly asked her what had happened to the woman who criticized the President's judgment. "I am that woman," she said. The Russian was incredulous: "How did they ever let you out of the country after what you said...