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...cofferdam to stem the river; the explosion set off by Nasser and his visitors opened up a diversion channel through which the Nile will now flow until the High Dam itself is completed. As the white-crested Nile rushed into the new channel, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko muttered in an unwontedly poetic mood: "It's like white horses." Even Khrushchev took time out from his attacks on the Western imperialists and said in awe: "This river is alive." As fire works exploded all around, the Arab crowds shouted: "Allah akhbar [God is great...
...associates, he has the ministry machinery under total and constant control. He takes no notes, commits what he needs to know-which is practically everything-to his prodigious memory. Said one dazed aide: "Couve's been to practically all the conferences since 1945, and he can remember what Gromyko said at this one, what the British position was on that...
Compleat Angler. Nonetheless, Gromyko trusts "Milord" Home enough to converse with him in English when they are alone, and Soviet admirers dubbed him respectfully the "Western Mo'otov." Laborites accused him of being rigidly antiCommunist, but Home was always ready to negotiate problems when he thought that there was any hope. When dealing with the Russians, said Compleat Angler Home, "I go trying for a fish. If nothing bites, I go back the next day. If a small fish bites, I go after a bigger...
...midst of all the talk of an end to the cold war, it served notice on the U.S. to beware. And right in the middle of it all, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko went into the White House for a 120-minute conference with President Kennedy-and came out smiling...
...mind to muddleheaded mysticism." Kelen's subject: Rudolf Hess. Other notable Kelen portraits: » John Foster Dulles: "His eyes blinked intermittently like an electric bulb loose in its socket, and he made sucking motions with his mouth as if chewing thumbtacks." » Russia's Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko: "Bulbous nose, dolorous eyes, tight lips . . . like a punchinello whose feelings have been wounded." » Adlai Stevenson: "The round head of a plump, warmhearted, paternal grandpa ... a man who laughs easily while his eyes remain staring like a couple of Andromeda nebulae." » Neville Chamberlain: "The Secre tary Bird, which...