Word: garst
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...current Soviet management, but Khrushchev rarely uses the car to go to the Moscow apartment reserved for his use. Shunning all but his closest friends and family, he spends his time hunting moose and hare, raising prize hogs, and experimenting with hybrid corn he got from Roswell Garst, an Iowa farmer who came...
...Iowa, at least, the newsmen got as much as they gave. On the unavoidable visit to the farm of Roswell Garst-who has played host to Premier Khrushchev (in 1959) and fancies himself a black-dirt diplomat-the visitors listened stonily to a lecture on what was wrong with Russia. The Soviets should build better farm-access roads, said Garst; they could improve their living standards by getting up an hour earlier in the morning. Then Garst broke out some vodka left over from the Khrushchev visit, but the newsmen insisted on U.S. whisky...