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...repercussions both in the U.S. and in Europe-the story of John Foster Dulles' press conference-was created by the press, and thus what reporters, pundits and editors said became the real news. In another way, the story of how the press reported, emphasized and commented on the Mikoyan visit was of perhaps greater importance than the visit itself. For both stories-stories you will read only in TIME-see PRESS, Making News That Isn't and "Objectivity" Rampant...
...getting some da, da, da-yes, yes, yes-into U.S.-Soviet relations. For his apparent good-fellowship, he won applause on the luncheon circuit, handshakes from bankers and industrialists, cheers from many a columnist who should have known better. But when the U.S.S.R.'s First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan got down to business in closed-door meetings with President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles last week, he did not budge by so much as a santimetr from familiar Kremlin positions...
...Mikoyan had no answer for U.S. editorialists and pundits, who continually clamor at the U.S. State Department for "new solutions." Behind his mask of amiability, Mikoyan was still one of the oldest power-holding Bolsheviks, committed to freedom's eventual extinction. Inevitably, his outer amiability had stirred U.S. hopes for a new era of friendship. But by the very nature of his cause, Anastas Mikoyan could only dash such hopes in the hearts of all but the most unrealistic optimists...
Ahead of the U.S., after Mikoyan's visit as before, stretched the familiar grim vista of struggle-not quite war, certainly not peace, but a course to which the U.S. had long since become accustomed. Against the standard prospect, President Eisenhower, in the budget and the Economic Report that he sent to Congress this week, stressed the nation's need to look to the health of its basic source of material strength: the U.S. economy under the free-enterprise system. For fiscal 1960 the President submitted a balanced $77 billion budget. In his Economic Report, he asked Congress...
WHEREVER he went-and, as it turned out, whatever he said-Anastas Mikoyan got rave notices from his cold-war-weary U.S. audiences. "Forthright," was the word used by Detroit industrialists after lunch with Mikoyan. "Refreshingly frank," glowed a U.S. State Department official. But cold print throws another light on Mikoyan's forthrightness and frankness. Traveling quote by quote with Anastas Mikoyan...