Word: mikoyan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...garden and greeted the hostess, Mrs. Charles E. Bohlen, wife of the U.S. Ambassador. Beaming at their head was round-polled Nikita Khrushchev, 61, First Secretary of the Russian Communist Party. With him was an imposing array of politburocrats: goateed Premier Nikolai Bulganin, smiling professorially; First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan, the clever Armenian who masterminds Soviet trade policy; Old Bolshevik Lazar Kaganovich and Young Bolshevik Maxim Saburov; Georgy Malenkov, once Premier, now electrical-power boss; cob-nosed Andrei Gromyko, looking for once as if he had not an enemy in sight...
...Moscow a newsman asked Deputy Premier Mikoyan how the talks had gone. "You can see the smiles on our faces," said Mikoyan...
...allies and friends.'' Two Germanys. The problem, and the prize, is not 79-year-old Chancellor Adenauer but the Germany that will come after him. When Adenauer did not hustle off to Moscow, the Russians took his delay easily. "We have no timetable." said First Deputy Premier Mikoyan. The real meaning of the Russian offer, and of the timing, is that Russia is announcing-in advance of the summit parley-that the Kremlin is content for now to accept two Germanys. The offer was also meant to dramatize an awkward fact: the power to unite Germany...
...tour of Croatia and Slovenia. Khrushchev flabbergasted his hosts by cracking bad jokes, swilling quarts of lemonade from a pitcher-sized glass, gnawing on an orange as voraciously as a dog with a bone. When a flat tire halted his car, he playfully challenged 59-year-old Anastas Mikoyan to a wrestling match. Yugoslavs looked on incredulously while Russia's 61-year-old Communist Party boss scuffled with his First Deputy Premier by the roadside. Mikoyan was often the butt of Khrushchev's pleasantries: "Some time ago, every Russian was complaining: no butter, no bread, no meat...
...Tito seemed relieved when he could turn to shake hands with the less-animated Premier Bulganin. Wistful and out of place in his distinctly subordinate role, goateed Nikolai Bulganin looked like a professor of geology who has suddenly been swept up in a reception for Danny Kaye. Anastas Mikoyan, First Deputy Premier, who followed him from the plane, was dark and sour, an Armenian rug merchant unsure of his sucker. First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrei Gromyko, pale and drawn, stayed behind...