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Throughout the meals, collective farm-girls plied the farmers with vodka, Georgian champagne and sweet wine, Moldavian muscatel, Ukrainian riesling, Armenian cognac and beer. "During the meal at least a dozen toasts are drunk to world peace, Soviet-American friendship, the exchange of ideas, and to women of both countries," reported New York Times Correspondent Welles Hangen. "Thereafter it is open season for anyone to propose a toast to almost anything except war, Fascism and mass destruction." But as for Soviet agriculture, one member of the U.S. delegation remarked: "In general it seems to me that the living standard...
...unathletic Molotov blushed as the other guests laughed. But then, ever the practiced diplomat, he remembered the demands of the day, and got happy. Later, Mikoyan danced an Armenian folk dance in the center of a group of singing diplomats and Russians, led by Bolshoi Theater stars. Molotov and Khrushchev sang old Russian folk songs, and First Deputy Premier Kaganovich got so emotional over a song called I Met You that he had to wipe the tears from his eyes...
Died. Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian, 86, Armenian oil baron; of a heart attack; in Lisbon, Portugal (see BUSINESS...
...Shadows. In the many years that followed, always operating in semi-shadow while the world's oil bubbled up to power a whole new mechanical age, Calouste Gulbenkian polished the traits bequeathed him by his shrewd Armenian ancestors. He came to deal on equal terms with most of the great sovereign governments of the West, the mightiest autocratic potentates of the East and great burgeoning billion-dollar corporations. Gulbenkian himself seldom dirtied his hands with the actual pumping and selling of the oil. He was an operator, an adept at what the Armenians call bazarlik, a dim figure...
MIKOYAN: A shrewd, sharp Armenian and a wizard at trade and barter. Intellect: brilliant. Force of character: limited...