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...mammoth red "Padi Harvesting Combines"-which are wheat combines converted for use in rice paddies. They also stocked shelves of books by Marx, Lenin and Engels but removed them after a government reminder that most are banned in Malaysia. "We're here to sell," said Dimitri V. Bekleshov, the gray-suited vice president of Vneshtorgreklama, the export agency's ad company. "Our tractors are better than the American Caterpillars." The advertising was also hardsell, and rich in unintended humor. Sample Aeroflot slogan: "And you've heard of Russian hospitality (some people never quite recover from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Southeast Asia: Ivan the Terrible Salesman | 10/17/1969 | See Source »

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