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...York's Idlewild Airport, a mustached, parrot-nosed man in a snap-brim hat and grey overcoat alighted from a chartered Scandinavian Airlines DC-7C, was soon swept into a knot of welcomers and greeted in a torrent of Russian. The visitor: Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas I. Mikoyan, Khrushchev's top economic adviser and political crony...
Technically, Mikoyan and his son Sergo, 29, were guests of Soviet Ambassador Mikhail A. Menshikov-not the U.S.-and "Smiling Mike" Menshikov shepherded them through customs, bundled them into a Cadillac at the head of a procession of five embassy cars. The procession skipped the announced stop at the Russian U.N. delegation headquarters in Manhattan so as to avoid demonstrations by New York's Red-hating refugees, sped across New York City and on down the New Jersey Turnpike, escorted by cops and two cars full of U.S. newsmen...
Double Doors. Near Trenton, N.J., the caravan pulled up at a Howard Johnson roadside restaurant. Mikoyan breakfasted at the counter (tomato juice, toast, marmalade, coffee), and, as the Soviet Union's chief dispenser of consumer goods, studied with fascination a popcorn maker, gum and cigarette vending machines. At Perryville, Md., the cars stopped at the pink stucco Oakcrest Motel. Through an interpreter Mikoyan braced the astonished owner: Did he make a profit? ("That's what we're in business for.") Why did the units have two doors? ("One's a storm door.") Did his family help...
When the convoy arrived at the austere Soviet embassy on Washington's Sixteenth Street, the sidewalk was jammed with photographers and newsmen, and it was Mikoyan's turn to answer questions. When was he going to see Secretary of State John Foster Dulles? "Tomorrow." Who else was he going to see in the U.S.? Replied Mikoyan with a smile: "You'll find out in time...
...Window. That afternoon, in chill, gusty weather, he slipped out of the embassy unannounced for a two-hour, three-mile stroll. State Department security men had to hustle to catch up, and got several sharp jolts. Seemingly a stranger to red lights, Mikoyan blithely walked across streets against traffic, brought cars to a screaming halt. On Fifteenth Street, a block from the White House, a heavy gust toppled a street light a few feet from Mikoyan, showering glass splinters around...