Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
Mikoyan's road-show sell got a good house in Cleveland. There, he presented a gift of a Russian troika (three splendid, high-stepping white horses and carriage) to his host, aging (75) Industrialist Cyrus Eaton, was invited for a ride, no sooner got one foot on the little carriage step than the whole shebang lit off around a snowy track at full speed. Jaunty and chipper, he hung on, alighted at last with a gallant swoop of his hat, as Mrs. Eaton cooed: "You're the bravest man I've ever heard of." Eaton, who regards...
Official Career. Sharing the legendary Armenian gift for trading, Mikoyan became Stalin's chief trade commissar at 30, overseeing not only Soviet foreign trade but also domestic distribution of goods. After World War II, he set up the Soviet economic apparatus for milking the captive nations of Eastern Europe. During the shifting struggle for power and survival after Stalin's death. Mikoyan shrewdly sided with Nikita Khrushchev when the other schemers from the old Stalin gang joined forces against the upstart. When Khrushchev won out, the wily Armenian emerged as No. 2 man, with the title of Deputy...
...same time, Solomon reported that an anonymous gift of $1000 has raised the final total for this year's Combined Charities drive to approximately $13,500. The undergraduate donor has tentatively earmarked his gift for the Program for Harvard College...
...graduation events. Working under her will be the Second Marshal, as chairman of Commencement Day; the Third Marshal, as chairman of Baccalaureate; and the Fourth and Fifth Marshals, as co-chair-men of Class Night, which usually includes a skit, a formal dance, and the presentation of the Class gift...