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Highest-ranking Soviet official ever to visit Japan, First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan was all smiles under his toothbrush mustache. When he arrived at Tokyo's International Airport last week, he exuded the folksy, traveling-salesman style that he and his proverb-prattling boss Nikita Khrushchev have made famous. "You have a saying that goes, 'A good neighbor is better than a distant relative,' " he told his hosts. "We live right next door to each other, and our relations should be those of good neighbors." Some 3,000 Japanese leftists waved red flags in approval, while...
...band struck up a Caucasian lezghinka, Khrushchev shoved Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev toward First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan. "Dance, you two," he said. Rising to the occasion, Brezhnev whipped out a white handkerchief, clapped it over his head and swayed through the girl's part with Mikoyan. Pointing to Mikoyan, Khrushchev quipped: "He's a good dancer and that's why we keep...
...Moscow's in-the-know circuit, other somewhat obvious candidates are brusquely dismissed. First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan, 65, the hardy survivor of a dozen plots and purges, is an Armenian. Tousle-haired Party Secretary Mikhail Suslov, 58, the "hard line" party theoretician, is rated too theoretical; First Deputy Premier Aleksei Kosygin, 58, a veteran economic planner, is thought to lack the stomach for the job. Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev was earlier kicked upstairs...
...first to identify the owners of the bushy upper lips in TIME, April 21? My guesses (from top to bottom): Mikoyan, Stalin, Hitler, Niven, Cantinflas...
...Virgin Lands. Two days later Khrushchev appeared at a Cuban embassy reception to read another piece of paper-mostly about the Soviet Union's desire for peace in places like the Congo, Laos, Cuba. Khrushchev roared with laughter as Mikoyan started shouting "Cuba da, Yankee nyet!" Asked by reporters about the 1960 harvest, which is thought in the West to have lagged 20% below plans, Khrushchev said, "It was not as bad as the previous year," but still left room for improvement. "That explains the reorganization of the Virgin Lands," he volunteered, and dropped the first word that tubby...