Word: visits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...salute to your staff for its delightful coverage of press capriciousness during Mr. K.'s visit. Good Lord, this is the profession I'm striving to enter...
...that his country was still far from the wonderland of the yearbooks. At Vladivostok, citizens flooded him with letters of complaint about inadequate housing and consumer goods shortages. To his open anger, Khrushchev also discovered that the local commissars had dressed up their normally bare shopwindows especially for his visit. Last week, hard on the heels of Nikita's arrival in Moscow, a decree went out for a 42% increase in the value of consumer goods output by 1961. Among the items to be stepped up: television sets, sewing machines, refrigerators, bicycles, electric irons-and lampshades "to match...
Ever since Nikita Khrushchev got back from his U.S. visit, Moscow's press and radio have been careful to emphasize that their leader was in no way overawed by what he saw in the showcase of Western capitalism. "I did not find a better land than our Russia," said Nikita himself...
...many Indians, the sight of Communists floundering is a source of malicious merriment. Parodying Nikita Khrushchev's rasping answer to a question about Hungary during his U.S. visit, a columnist for the Indian Express wondered what the Reds were going to do about "the rat Comrade Mao has thrust down the throat of the Communist Party, and which it can neither spit out nor swallow." With evident cheerfulness, he added: "There is, at present, great danger that the rat will suffocate the Communist Party of India...
...Welcomed the state visit of Juan Jose Arevalo, the "spiritual socialist" who let the Communists make nearly fatal inroads during his six years (1945-51) as President of Guatemala...