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...talks with U.S. businessmen that Mikoyan worked hardest to sell his theme. Weaving wit with bluntness that sometimes bordered on confession ("Solomon would probably split the blame for the cold war down the mid dle"), he entranced his listeners. He heaped praise on American business, chirped, with a twinkle, that Ford and General Motors enjoy just the same kind of peaceful coexistence that Russia wants with...
Bombs & Clips. Mikoyan never seemed to mind the necessity for extra security precautions, such as checking food with Geiger counters (to guard against attempts to poison him with radioactive substances) or the telephone bomb threat that delayed his airplane out of Chicago. In fact, he appeared even philosophical as, from place to place, he was dogged by bitter Hungarian and Ukrainian pickets, who threw stones, snowballs and eggs (no direct hits) in disregard of President Eisenhower's call for a show of courtesy. At first, he thought that "it is like a comedy," but by the time he landed...
...group of Chicago businessmen, Anastas Mikoyan last week hinted that the oldest, and once the mightiest, of the disgraced comrades might soon be brought back from Asian exile. Vyacheslav M. Molotov, said the First Deputy Premier, "might even become an ambassador to a larger state...
...conservative man,'' explained Mikoyan. "He thinks that everything past is good and everything new is bad. [But] we have utmost confidence in him as an ambassador just so long as he is not in a position to decide on questions of reform...
...Mikoyan obviously was not talking off the cuff. At week's end Netherlands' officials confirmed that Moscow had asked and received permission to shift old Stonebottom, now 68, from the Russian embassy in forbidding Outer Mongolia to the post of ambassador in The Hague...