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Khrushchev joined the party in 1918, got his first taste of slaughter in the bloody Civil War that ravaged the Ukraine after the Communist Revolution. In the '20s, he assisted in the liquidation of the kulaks and the mass deportation of millions of Ukrainian peasants; in the second Five Year Plan (1933-38), he bossed the excavation of Moscow's subway stations. His reward was the Order of Lenin and one of the party's toughest assignments: to stamp out the lingering embers of Ukrainian nationalism...
...labeled it "1920." This, says he, was something he learned at the American Academy: "If you have ever wielded an archaeologist's pickax, you are never the same again. You see Times Square as if it were an archaeological specimen 2,000 years from now." In the '20s, he seemed to be concerned with everything but America. In 1925-26 he took a year's leave from Lawrenceville to study for an M.A. at Princeton in French literature. In a one-act play by Merimee, he found the germ of an idea for another book...
...Conference of New England Governors. "New England virtues are good virtues," it said. "So were the virtues of the dinosaur . . . 'Eat it up, wear it out, make it do, go without': these are the classic virtues of New England. New England management in the '20s and '30s tended to eat up its profits, to wear out its equipment, to make its buildings do . . . There are definite signs that it has learned better...
...20s and '30s, the Marine Corps is wrestling with many a problem of combat yet to come. In Korea they have already proved to their own satisfaction the benefits of armored vests, of close air support, and of helicopter lifts to front-line areas. Marine planners of 1952 are already using the whirlybird as at. least a partial substitute for landing craft...
...time," taught Franklin that bullfighting was grinding work. He learned to respect the brave bulls, too. "But what enthralled me most," says frank Sidney Franklin, "was the absolute idolatry in which the crowd held the fighters." Extroverted, extravagant, foolish and flamboyant, Franklin surf boarded through the '20s on this idolatrous wave, bathing himself in a thunderous surf of resounding...