Word: matskevich
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Dates: during 1955-1955
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There was not a baggy suit among the lot of them, or a frown, when twelve visiting Russian farm officials showed up at the Department of Agriculture last week for an appointment with Secretary Ezra Taft Benson. Bald and effusive, Russia's Deputy Minister of Agriculture Vladimir Matskevich presented Benson with a couple of souvenir lacquered boxes, one of them showing a family of bears gamboling happily in a forest. Benson asked how to say "thank you" in Russian, said "spasibo," and handed Matskevich a 4-H Club tie-clip, a photograph of the Benson family and a book...
...asked Ezra Benson and just about anyone else who wanted to come to a glossy farewell reception: "Come, of course. And bring your wife. Just mention your name at the door." For the first time, the silken-draped Russian embassy was opened to TV cameras, and beneath the floodlights Matskevich stood sweating happily among 400 guests. Amid the clatter of good will could be heard snatches of U.S.-Russian conversation: "What is the impression after Geneva . . .?" "I was in the infantry myself . . ." "Maybe music can be the language to draw us closer together...
...Much Lemonade." At lunch next day, the Russian farm officials got a standing ovation from Washington's National Press Club. Matskevich had been so good at patting babies out in Iowa, said the chairman of the lunch, that "if he stays here much longer he'll be elected to the Senate." One newsman asked Matskevich about Marilyn Monroe. "I haven't seen her farm," grinned...
...most important and joyful impression of our trip," said Matskevich, "was our meetings with the average Americans. These meetings left an unblemished spot in our hearts." Matskevich was impressed, he said, by hybridization of corn, poultry and hogs, mechanization of small tasks on the farm, fattening of cattle on feed lots and home-economics teaching in land-grant colleges. He liked U.S. farm machinery so well that he hoped to place some orders right away; he had already sent one member of his delegation back down to Texas for some breeding stock of Santa Gertrudis cattle. "Sometimes there...
...Vladimir Matskevich wound up his visit to the U.S. in a surplus-goods store, where he bought a down hunting vest and suede hunting jacket to take back to chilly Russia. In there exuding humanity and good will to the end, one of the Russians commented: "He's a country man. He buys the clothes for hunting...