Word: mikes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mike came to this country less than a year ago as the new ambassador of the Soviet Union with a brief-case filled with smiles and "better understanding." Since then the silver-haired diplomat has spent all his energies in an attempt to fulfill the American image of the goodwill ambassador. "Things are going slowly," he admits, "but I'm still hopeful." And it's clear that many long years of training lie behind the hopes, words, and smiles Mike offers at every opportunity...
Fifty-six years ago Mike Menshikov was born in a small town just outside Moscow. He entered college when he was twenty-two to study economics and recalls that "at the time I entered college, I didn't know what would become of me after five years." His interest in economics, however, led him to write his thesis on food-stuffs and world trade, a field he was later to specialize in. He took his course in the evening, and during the day worked in a cold storage plant. He graduated from the Moscow Economic Institute...
...about this time that Mike paid his first visit to the United States. "I clearly remember that November day in 1936," he recalled, "when Roosevelt was elected President for the second time. It was a very interesting occasion." Seven years later he returned to America as a member of the Soviet delegation sent to Atlantic City to discuss the formation of the United Nations Reconstruction and Relief Agency. When the conference concluded, Mike remained in this country as a deputy minister of foreign affairs in Washington...
...conclusion of the Second World War, Mike returned to Moscow, where he boasts, "I was one of the members of the Cabinet under Stalin for three years." It is with no small amount of pride that he recalls his meetings two or three times a week with Stalin. "Occasionally," he adds with a wry smile, "we used to meet more often, just to talk...
Armed with a glass of dry sherry, Mike is an amiable conversationalist, listening politely and with a nod of his head now and then returning answers to difficult questions with the open frankness and straight-from-the-shoulder approach that has won him many friends...