Word: gromyko
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...Gromyko and the Czech and Polish delegations stayed away from the signing. Just before the ceremony, Gromyko held a press conference in which he repeated his familiar tune. After half an hour, newsmen began to walk out on him in disgust. Gromyko was heard to mutter: "There is nothing...
...Andrei Gromyko is not a funny man, but off the speaker's platform he often does what he can to be agreeable. At the diplomatic reception at San Francisco's Palace Hotel last week, the Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister's small talk consisted largely of terse platitudes on the weather, a grunted "no comment" in answer to searching questions, and an occasional joke, filed away during his earlier visits to the U.S. One of his favorites...
...That," says Andrei Gromyko stonily, "is very good, very clever...
...transcontinental TV got only laggard help from its human machines. H. V. Kaltehborn's running commentary tended to obscure rather than illumine the action. The announcers, in their interviews with delegates, managed to say almost nothing, and that dully. Due to an inept translation, Russia's Andrei Gromyko was made to sound even more illogical than usual...
Viewers may remember such visual treats as President Truman's airy "Let's go, boys" gesture to California's Governor Warren and San Francisco's Mayor Elmer Robinson, as he left the platform. Equally memorable were the lethal exchanges between Gromyko, as inflexible as granite, and U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson, as impersonally stern as a veteran headmaster. Poland's bristling Stefan Wierblowski provided drama when, overruled, he remained on the stand, quivering with indignation and spluttering protests, but powerless against the Olympian calm of Acheson...