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WHEN the world's most successful peasant, Nikita Khrushchev, talks about one of the world's most successful capitalists, Cyrus Stephen Eaton, he beams. And vice versa. Last week this odd international friendship brought the capitalist a unique gift and an unusual visit. Who is this man who enjoys living like a baron of old, and thinks of himself as a philosopher of the new? See BUSINESS, Khrushchev's Favorite Capitalist...
Khrushchev's Favorite Capitalist...
WHILE junketing around the U.S. last week, Rus sia's Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) put one courtesy call at the top of his list-a special visit to Cyrus Stephen Eaton, 75, Cleveland multi millionaire and Red Boss Khrushchev's favorite capitalist...
Greeting Eaton, Mikoyan cooed: "When Mr. Khrushchev talked about you, his whole face was beaming." Now in his twilight years, Cyrus Eaton is the archetype of the fading dog-eat-dog capitalist. Tall and slim (5 ft. 11 in., 175 Ibs.) with frosty blue eyes and arctic white hair, he dresses like Daddy Warbucks (blue suits, grey Homburg) and resides in manorial splendor on huge farms (champion Shorthorn beef cattle) in Ohio and Nova Scotia. His personal wealth is estimated at something like $100 million, and his hard-knuckled grip on U.S. industry extends over a $2 billion empire...
...York, Jan. 14--The Kremlin finally shook hands with Wall Street--its ancient capitalist whipping boy--as Soviet Dep. Premier Anastas I. Mikoyan lunched with some of America's top financiers Wednesday...