Word: elixir
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Hand at the Tie. As always, Khrushchev could switch with bewildering speed from bully to ham. "Communism is my elixir of life," he bragged. "All I want is to live long enough to see the Red flag flying all over the world." At one point, riding through the Alps by cable car, he burst into the Volga Boatmen's song, insisted that Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko join in. While his wife Nina stayed humbly to the rear, he flirted with his attractive blonde Minister of Culture, Ekaterina Furtseva, 50. They joined in frequent private giggles, and occasionally she straightened...
...Daily News's Joseph Patterson (May 7, 1928) to his daughter Alicia of Long Island's Newsday (Sept. 13, 1954). This week, in U.S. Presidential Election Year 1960, TIME'S cover tells the story of a reportorial breed to whom politics is meat, potatoes and sweet elixir. This is the story of the Washington press corps and its leading member: James ("Scotty") Reston, the Washington correspondent of the New York Times...