Word: detroiter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with fingers waggling briskly, Anastas Mikoyan, the Kremlin's No. 2 man, was busier than a checker in a supermarket on a Saturday afternoon. In the space of a week, he whirled through official and unofficial Washington, raced on to luncheons, dinners and informal question games in Cleveland. Detroit, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles. In between appointments, he inspected stores, gave candy to a baby, shook hands along auto assembly lines, peered at new gadgets and chomped on an airline's free Chiclets...
Purges & Chirps. This was not quite the kind of coexistence that Anastas Mikoyan had in mind. Nevertheless, he went right on making his disarming impression. He was solid in Detroit, got his biggest laugh at a private dinner with top industrial and civic leaders when he brought up the subject of laxatives-one of the products that U.S. manufacturers are permitted to sell in Russia. Cracked Anastas, through his interpreter: "I see this is a capitalistic thing, perhaps designed to weaken us. You see, without laxatives, our top people are likely to be disagreeable and more formidable. But with extravagant...
...will dine with the Eisenhowers and Secretary of State Dulles. A longtime Congressman himself, he will address a joint session of Congress. Also on the ten-day itinerary: a weekend in colonial Williamsburg; a ticker-tape parade in Manhattan, talks with New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, flying trips to Detroit and Chicago...
...step in the anti-polio war is to complete three-shot protection for 50 million Americans under 40 who still have had no vaccine or only an odd shot. This will mean wiping out pockets of epidemic potential, now found mainly in low-living-standard areas, such as the Detroit slums that bred 1958's deadliest outbreak. Simultaneously, Dr. Salk recommended a fourth or booster shot for those who have already had three. (Though some nervous-Nellie parents have had their children jabbed seven or eight times, this apparently does no good: the fourth shot gives antibody levels...
...three times been field manager at Washington, twice at Detroit and once each with the Red Sox, New York Yankees and Philadelphia Phillies...