Word: mikhail
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days 21 hr. 46 min. Khrushchev says of Gromyko: "If I tell my Foreign Minister to sit on a block of ice and stay there for months, he'll do it without back talk." Gromyko's personality opposite on the tour: Ambassador to the U.S. Mikhail ("Smiling Mike") Menshikov, 56, whose beaming arrival in Washington 18 months ago first signaled the Kremlin thaw. He has addressed more U.S. luncheon clubs and business groups than any other Red Russian in history. His wide travels have doubtless provided reporting on the U.S. mood...
...Khrushchev's son-in-law. But though Adzhubei might have been helped by the family connection, his ability is not disputed; as editor of Komsomolskaya Pravda (party youth organ) from 1957 to 1959, he cut down on party propaganda, racked up a notable circulation increase. Author Mikhail Sholokhov, 54, is a devout Bolshevik who fought the White Guards in the Russian civil war, the craftsman who penned And Quiet Flows the Don and Virgin Soil Upturned...
...week long, Soviet Ambassador Mikhail A. Menshikov shuttled back and forth between his embassy on Washington's 16th Street and conferences at the State Department over Nikita Khrushchev's visit. A major general and a colonel of the Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti, the Kremlin's secret police, gumshoed quietly across the country, turning up in such unlikely places as Des Moines and Ames, Iowa to check security angles at airports, hotels and along principal streets. The State Department gulped at the word from Moscow that the size of the Khrushchev official party had reached almost 100, headed...
...most striking vessel was Russia's new Mikhail Lomonosov, painted resplendent white with the earth encircled by a satellite gleaming proudly on her bow. Much bigger (5,960 tons) than most Western research ships, she carries a complement of 131, of whom 71 are scientists. She can stay at sea for four months instead of the five weeks that is average for U.S. vessels. Her equipment is lavish, e.g., six deep-sea winches instead of the customary single one. U.S. experts who looked her over agreed that she could do almost any kind of oceanographic work, and the Russians...
...while for traffic through the slit to build up. In January 1958, after nearly three years of on-and-off negotiations, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. signed an elaborate cultural-exchange agreement. A few days later, to get the new era off to a brisk start, Moscow sent Mikhail ("Smiling Mike") Menshikov to Washington to replace dour Georgy Zarubin as ambassador. During 1958 the U.S. sent to the U.S.S.R. 82 separate exchange projects with 953 members-scientists, engineers, artists, entertainers, businessmen, farmers, athletes-and the U.S.S.R. sent to the U.S. 68 projects with 516 members. The cultural-exchange mood boomed...