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...front sat Khrushchev, with Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan beside him whispering in his ear; next, to their right, sat Party Secretaries Alexei Kirichenko and Mikhail Suslov...
...Dictator Accepts. Every right hand in the hall except Khrushchev's shot up in favor of the motion. Khrushchev sat with bowed head. Cheers volleyed off the walls. Mikoyan and the others wrung the boss's hand. Khrushchev stepped to the rostrum to say with apparent emotion; "I shall do everything to justify your confidence and shall not spare strength, health or life to serve...
...Mikoyan...
...what Smiling Mike was made of. He was born in the village of Posevkino in the Voronezh district of Russia in 1902, graduated from Moscow's Plekhanov Institute of National Economy in 1929, hobnobbed up through the Kremlin bureaucracy to become an aide to Foreign Trade Expert Anastas Mikoyan. As UNRRA representative in Poland (1945), Menshikov used U.N. prestige to help dignify Communism's grip, angered idealistic U.N. staffers by twisting U.N. ideals to Kremlin ends; as U.S.S.R. Trade Ambassador to Egypt (1948), he was in charge of negotiating the first Soviet-Egypt trade deal that opened...
...year-end Plenum, Khrushchev moved a clutch of his secretariat juniors into the party Presidium in place of Molotov and other old stagers flung out in last June's big command scrap. Of the top Presidium's 15 members, all but five Bulganin, Voroshilov, Mikoyan, Shvernik and Kozlov) are now Khrushchev subbordinates who also hold jobs in the party secretariat...