Word: thaws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...split became public, Peking used little Albania as a sort of ventriloquist's dummy. Albania's fiercely anti-Khrushchev rulers said all the nasty things about Moscow that the Chinese obviously wanted to say themselves. Since Nikita Khrushchev's ouster amid signs of a Russian-Chinese thaw, the Communist world-and its observers in the West-have wondered whether the Albanian line might soften. Last week came the answer...
...leapfrogged over the heads of oldtimers waiting around for membership to become the youngest member of the party Presidium. A persuasive pragmatist, Shelepin talked 350,000 Russian youths into volunteering for work in the virgin lands, served as Nikita's iceman when Khrushchev decided to re-refrigerate the thaw in Soviet art and literature two years-ago. Significantly, Shelepin is now the only man in the leadership who simultaneously holds top rank in the Presidium, the Secretariat and the Council of Ministers-a tripod power base that Khrushchev alone previously enjoyed. As chairman of the Party and State Control...
This was going to be the season of the big thaw-the melting of the $10 million glacier of box-office ice, which is Broadway's term for ticket scalpers' profits. But last week Manhattan's District Attorney arrested nine ticket salesmen on charges of scalping. Tickets to How to Succeed were selling for $20 apiece, and " the scalpers were even dealing in ducats for the lowly New York Mets...
...boss. After the war, though a Jew himself, he aided Stalin's ferocious purge of Soviet Jews by ridiculing Jewish solidarity and calling Israel a "laughable dwarf caoitalist state." After Stalin's death, Ehrenburg led the fight for freer artistic expression, and his 1954 novel, The Thaw, gave the new literary movement its name. In his Memoirs, which have been running, off and on, in the Soviet press since 1960, he has tried to present an unbiased picture of the recent Russian past. It is a gallant and encouraging try, but unfortunately-thanks to a combination of Ehrenburg...
Pavel Lukianov, counselor at the Russian embassy in Wasington, told his audience, "What I know is what you know." He was speaking to the Harvard-Radcliffe International Relations Council, and his announced topic was "The 'Thaw' in East-West Relations...