Word: alekseevich
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the U.S. Government's patience was running out on another hugand-tug type of foreign diplomat in Washington. Name: Mikhail Alekseevich Menshikov, ambassador of the U.S.S.R., who has carried Dictator Khrushchev's stop-nuclear tests and let's-have-a-parley-at-the-summit propaganda to the U.S. public via TV press conferences, businessmen's dinners and cultural wingdings with such sincere style that he got the nickname of "Smiling Mike" (TIME, March 17 et seq.). Sample exchange: Q. How can we trust you on stopping nuclear tests when you violated the armistice...
Most famous Britannica edition was the ninth, completed in 1889, with 25 volumes and 20,504 pages (v. the current Britannica's 24 volumes, 27,247 pages). Contributors included Poet Algernon Charles Swinburne, Darwinian Thomas Henry Huxley, and Revolutionary Russian Prince Pëtr Alekseevich Kropotkin, who wrote his article on "Anarchism" while locked up in a French prison...
Then Mikhail Alekseevich Menshikov, 55, new U.S.S.R. Ambassador to the U.S. and first U.S.S.R. ambassador to address the Press Club since Litvinov did it in 1941, got down to the nub of his mission. "If our countries not only normalize their relations but start to live in friendship, their combined efforts will help to clear the atmosphere on our whole planet." The gimmick: a parley at the summit. "The very fact of convening such a conference will have a beneficial influence...
Unerasable Smile. The caller was Mikhail Alekseevich Menshikov, Russia's new ambassador to the U.S. A foreign-trade specialist who persuasively sold the Soviet trade-plus-aid approach as ambassador to India, Envoy Menshikov, 55, is conspicuously suited to the Kremlin's peaceful-coexistence line. In black-and-white contrast to his dour, clam-mouthed predecessor, Georgy Zarubin, he flashes a wide and easy smile, spouts friendly sentiments in fluent English. Upon arrival in the U.S. a fortnight ago, he promptly declared himself an ambassador of "peace, friendship and cooperation." Last week he paid courtesy visits to Vice...