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...hour, U.S.-style press conference within the ancient Kremlin* walls, Mikoyan reported to the Soviet press on his trip. In high good humor, he told of visiting the dacha of Cleveland Industrialist Cyrus Eaton, and of a luncheon at which he had pressed "my old friend" former Governor Averell Harriman to revisit Moscow now that Nelson Rockefeller had freed him to travel. Mikoyan paid tribute to American women -"they were very nice to us; they cannot hide their feelings as well as a man" -and recalled with evident relish his luncheon with those archvillains of Communist mythology, the bankers...
...prolific typewriter, and it calls for someone like his Inspector Maigret to solve it. The cast includes big-eyed, beautiful Dominique Lacaze, with a hint of mystery about her origins, and the two men of great talent and enormous wealth whom she married -Art Collector Paul Guillaume and Industrialist Jean Walter. There are the nagging riddles of their deaths, the odd behavior of her elegant brother Jean, the mysterious comings and goings of the magnetic Dr. Lacour, the ex-paratrooper willing to murder for money, and the fetching blonde prostitute called Maïté. And, finally, there...
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...
...promise. Since there is little they can-or want to -do about it, the Allies may now decide to release Krupp formally from his pledge. Krupp is already believed to own 75% of Bochumer Verein's stock, obtained through the good offices of his friend, Swedish Industrialist Axel Wenner-Gren...
...story, J.B. is a rich, admired, modern American industrialist with a devoted wife and five fine children. Then disaster looms and mounts; J.B.'s children are senselessly killed or brutally murdered, his possessions are lost, his house is destroyed, his wife goes away, his body sickens. All this happens against a crossfire of commentary, Biblical and profane, between Zuss and Nickles, a crossfire that continues as the stricken J.B. wrestles with his soul, with his Comforters, with his God, until at length his health is restored and his wife returns...