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...contemporaries described him variously as a Red Hitler and a Jolly St. Nik, a shoe banger and a shrewd geo-politician. Before his ouster in 1964 by less colorful but more pragmatic men, Khrushchev had justified at least some of those descriptions: he denounced Stalin and initiated the cultural thaw in Soviet life; he built the Berlin Wall and wisely backed down from the Cuban missile crisis after rashly getting into it; most important, he allowed the Soviet economy to become consumer oriented, a process that has begun to alter the very nature of Marxism...
Hampered by an unusually late thaw this month, the Crimson is "scrambling to make up for lost time," according to Parker...
Detente, however, has not been brought about in a straight way. We have seen many ups-and-downs and zig-zags on the path to the present thaw in the cold war. But in trudging laboriously along the difficult and dangerous way to equilibrium, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. came to learn to accommodate themselves with the status quo rather than seek abrupt changes in the balance of power. They seemed to have realized that accommodation with each other is to their common interest...
Zagarelle added that although Red-baiting still exists in the universities, the frost is beginning to thaw. The consequences of "going public" are not as formidable as they used to be, he said...
...rules committee will have to take a serious look at this problem," says Kentucky's Adolph Rupp, who favors adoption of the pros' "24-sec. rule" that requires a team to shoot 24 sec. after it gets the ball. That would make the freeze thaw overnight. That is, unless folks get a kick out of the kind of game they had in Kentucky last week, when Adair County High beat Campbellsville by a score...