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Schmidt starts slowly in his opening monologue. But once surrounded by foils he is marvelously poised, a dashing, foolish master of the simpering toadies. He rants on about his acquaintance with the great ("Well Pushkin, old man, how are things?") and finally falls besodden and exhausted...
Died. Georgy Maximovich Pushkin. 54. Russian diplomat currently ranked as a deputy foreign minister, whose list of achievements includes the efficient Communization of Hungary (as ambassador from 1945 to 1949) and East Germany (as head of the Soviet Diplomatic Mission from 1949 to 1952 and ambassador from 1954 to 1958); of a heart attack; in Moscow...
...went, but a tall American diplomat in a sports jacket stood peering at Lamppost 35, which was marked with a crude circle in charcoal. Finally, he jumped into a waiting car and roared off toward the Moscow River. Shortly afterward, another American ducked into a house at 5-6 Pushkin Street, where he surreptitiously reached behind a hallway radiator. As he was about to pocket the paper-wrapped matchbox that had been concealed there, Russian counterespionage agents burst in and arrested...
...Force Captain Alexis Davison, 31, who was "openheartedly received as a true colleague'' by Soviet doctors. It was Davison, said the Russians, who was so preoccupied by the lamppost. The charcoal circle was a signal that information was ready to be picked up at 5-6 Pushkin Street by another embassy staffer, Richard Carl Jacob, 26, who, though only a secretary-archivist, was in reality, claimed Pravda, a graduate of a special U.S. spy school. The paper even carried "authentic"' photographs of the "spies at work...
...York last week, after 24 days of confabs with Castro, than he began posing for photographers while chomping hot dogs in the fashion of an old Brooklyn Dodgers fan. He spent a friendly evening with U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, much of it occupied by discussion of such matters as Pushkin's short stories. Bantering with newsmen, Mikoyan cracked that Stevenson was "more difficult" than Castro...