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...Stalin's most trusted ministers, Mikoyan became known both as a tough, wily trade negotiator well versed in capitalist business practices and as a skilled organizer who directed the evacuation of Soviet industry during World War II. After Stalin's death in 1953, he allied himself with Nikita Khrushchev, eventually serving as one of the party chiefs Deputy Premiers. During the Cuban missile crisis it was Mikoyan whom Khrushchev sent to Fidel Castro to explain his "compromise" with President Kennedy. A survivor by instinct, Mikoyan initiated the now famous attack against Stalin at the party's 20th...
Being out front with ideas is a Garst family tradition. David's father Roswell, who died last November at 79, is remembered internationally as the corn grower who played host to Nikita Khrushchev on his U.S. tour in 1959. But on the prairies Roswell is remembered as a developer, with Henry Wallace, of hybrid corn. David, a blunt-featured bear of a man who graduated from Stanford ('50), is promoting innovation on his own. Among the techniques that he and his family have pushed...
...Winston Churchill planned Dday. Dwight Eisenhower changed the name of the retreat to that of his grandson David, and the new name later became synonymous with a thawing of the cold war. "The spirit of Camp David" derived from the 1959 summit conference between Eisenhower and the Soviets' Nikita Khrushchev. In all, 20 leaders of foreign countries have stayed there...
Directed by Nikita Mikhalkov...
There is much to admire in Director Nikita Mikhalkov's rendering of this tale. He has shot the movie in summery, impressionistic colors that well evoke the end of imperial Russia. His comic vignettes about the early days of his country's film industry are reminiscent of old-time Hollywood lore, right down to the portrayal of temperamental screenwriters and cost-conscious producers. Slave even has a character who is a Russian equivalent of American Silent-Era Star John Gilbert: a dashing leading man whose speaking voice is disconcertingly high-pitched...