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...family's profitable drug-wholesaling business. He went to Russia in the 1920s, intending to set up a field hospital. But he quickly realized that the Russians needed food more than medicine and arranged to import grain from the U.S. in exchange for Soviet furs, hides and caviar. His success won him an introduction to Lenin, who granted the young American a pencil-manufacturing concession. In 1930, after the climate for Western capitalists had turned increasingly cold, he sold off his thinning enterprises to the Soviet government and left the country with a fortune in czarist art treasures that...
...such products as trucks, farm machinery and color TV. "They want the latest and the best of our sophisticated manufacturing know-how," says Peterson. Yet the Soviets have no illusion that their consumer goods will be competitive in the U.S. "We are a good market for vodka and some caviar, but the Russians have surveyed American and worldwide demand for energy. The things that they have and that we most need are energy and raw materials." Peterson and the Soviets discussed three possible projects...
...Viet Nam could be put into perspective as a relatively minor theater of conflict-something that Washington has for too long refused to acknowledge-and that the major business of the superpowers could proceed. There was something cold and slightly brutal about this way of dealing, amid champagne and caviar, over the heads of the Vietnamese dead. Hanoi was furious. Assailing Russia as much as the U.S., it called Nixon's trip to Moscow "dark and despicable...
Curiously, the only villain of the piece is a handsome, young Baron (Helmut Griem) who sets out to seduce both Sally and Brain with the aid of caviar, fur coats and gold cigarette cases. The source of the Baron's corrupting influence is his money and not his sexual tastes. But the audience soon forgets that fact, as the Baron's pursuit of Brain--and not the seductiveness of his wealth--becomes the movie's one fate markedly worse than death. Again, no effort is made to pinpoint the suggested relationship between the discrete deviance presented in the film...
...Soviet Union. Straight from the airport with a fresh San Clemente suntan, Presidential Adviser Henry Kissinger came to meet her. Someone asked if Kissinger would have the same success with the ladies in Moscow that he does in Hollywood. Furtseva (twinkling at him over the vodka and caviar): Bolshe (Bigger). Kissinger (twinkling back): I hope you have a heart specialist in Moscow. Furtseva: Don't worry. I am surprised-I had heard you were ten feet tall. Kissinger: That's because my staff has to approach me on their knees. Both (toasting): To friendship, real friendship...