Word: mikoyan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Firm Stands. At session's end Anastas Mikoyan slipped into a wide-lapelled overcoat, informed newsmen that the talks with Dulles and Ike had been "a useful exchange of views." What Mikoyan meant by "useful" only he knew-and Nikita Khrushchev would presumably find out. But what Washington hoped he meant was this: that Mikoyan, despite the ardor of his reception elsewhere, realized that the two men who actually direct U.S. foreign policy have no intention of being bulldozed, bluffed or cozened out of Berlin or anywhere else...
...News provides him with 30 minutes for the same job. He mixes in film clips, unrehearsed dialogues with special guests, and visual aids with his own commentary. But more time is not enough. Smith's first two programs (devoted to the U.S. visit of Russia's Anastas Mikoyan and the ascendancy of French President Charles de Gaulle) were not very deep. As usual, television's all-seeing eye dominated the show, and Smith and his associates, for all their worthwhile effort, added little depth to either subject. The screen was still 21 inches across; giving...
...press, no less than to the U.S. State Department, the uninvited guest from Moscow posed a real dilemma. Behind the little black mustache of Anastas I. Mikoyan, Soviet First Deputy Premier, resided two men. One-the official emissary of a state dedicated to world conquest-was well concealed by the other: a good-will salesman, radiating charm, beaming his subtle pitch directly at the people, and possessing the built-in news value of a mysterious visitor from a mysterious land. The dilemma was: How to report on the fascinating, amiable salesman while keeping a clear eye on the suspicious nature...
Unbalanced Account. The papers played Mikoyan big. In Minneapolis the Tribune gave him as much space as it had devoted to Queen Elizabeth's 1957 visit to the U.S. In two days in Los Angeles he rated five to six columns daily from each of the four papers. When Detroit played Mikoyan's host, the News ran four front-page stories the same day, also turned over most of an inside page to detailed coverage of his stay. At week's end, the New York Times had yet to break the Mikoyan lease on Page...
...highly newsworthy visitor, Mikoyan deserved extensive coverage. But most papers, in giving him this due, leaned over backward to preserve the "objectivity" in which the U.S. press takes inordinate pride. Most stories ran as straightforward accounts of the rubberneck tour, without qualifications, without reservations, without showing cautious awareness of the other Mikoyan, the calculating Russian emissary, who followed Tourist Mikoyan everywhere he went. Harrison Salisbury of the New York Times, who spent six years in Moscow watching the Soviet's ways, filed Baedeker-like stories in which both the real Mikoyan and Salisbury's Moscow wisdom were invisible...