Word: russians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...send an intricate, 372-lb. payload of instruments into the vicinity of the moon-and if all went well, into orbit around the moon. The rocket also carried a weighty cargo of hope and national pride: Nikita Khrushchev had kicked off his trip to the U.S. with the Russian moon shot; a U.S. answer exploded on the pad while he was in the U.S. Here, on the eve of the President's grand tour, was the U.S.'s chance to catch...
...Russian press has long held the distinction of being the world's dullest-a distinction in which Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, one Communist who believes that party pills go down best with a little sugar, takes scant pleasure. No sooner had he taken over in the Kremlin than Khrushchev began trying to brighten up Soviet journalism: dull writing, he warned a conference of editors six years ago, "must be driven from the newspaper page." To do the driving, Khrushchev employed an able newsman: apple-cheeked Aleksei I. Adzhubei, now 35, who also happens...
...leading journalists got the idea, began breaking old molds. In an unprecedented gesture, Moscow's Literaturnaya Gazeta last week agreed to run a 1,100-word letter from U.S. Author Charles Neider, defending The Autobiography of Mark Twain, which he edited, against a hostile review in the Russian literary journal...
...State Christian Herter's speech before the National Foreign Trade Council but reprinted from U.S. News & World Report an interview with Iowa Corn Farmer Roswell Garst, who played host to Khrushchev during the Soviet Chairman's U.S. visit last September. Garst's frank talk about Russian agriculture (still primitive by U.S. standards) and Khrushchev (rough, tough and cruel, but "not all black") got by untouched...
...third major point, Kissinger spoke of the future of "uncommitted" nations. Denying that the United States should attempt to match all Russian programs in these countries, he affirmed that foreign aid is necessary. He expressed doubt that foreign aid will be decisive in shaping the loyalties of these new and underdeveloped countries. "I ame not at all convinced that the pedantic rules of Western policy, combined with a certain lack of energy, might not be less appealing than Moscow and Peiping," he added...