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...Likhachyov truck factory, discussing computer training with teachers at School No. 514 and nurses' pay with the staff of City Hospital No. 53. He even dropped into a young couple's apartment for tea. That was the first of the walkabouts that have taken him, sometimes accompanied by Raisa, from Murmansk in the north to Kamchatka on the shores of the Pacific. On several of his tours he has displayed an easy informality and an almost impish distaste for ceremonial oratory. Entering the hall of the Starnikovsky Farm near Moscow to talk to livestock breeders last summer, he veered away...
While Gorbachev's working schedule does not seem to be overly taxing, he recently answered an Italian interviewer's question as to how he spends his free time by saying simply, "I have none." He is, however, an avid theatergoer. In Stavropol he and Raisa attended not only every play that opened but also many dress rehearsals. In Moscow, while preparing for the Washington summit, they found time to take in The Peace of Brest, a historical drama about Lenin's early years in power that opened...
Mikhail Gorbachev sat on Nancy Reagan's right. On her left was Richard Perle, former Pentagon hard-liner and Soviet nemesis. The President was flanked by Raisa Gorbachev and Jeane Kirkpatrick. And the State Dining Room was filled with the unlikeliest 125 people one could imagine supping together: Henry Kissinger and Meadowlark Lemon, great Globetrotters both; Claudette Colbert and Moscow's supreme propagandist, Alexander Yakovlev; Ted Graber, Nancy's interior designer, and Georgi Arbatov, the Kremlin's noted American expert; Joe DiMaggio and Pearl Bailey; David Rockefeller, Mary Lou Retton and Saul Bellow...
...Washington's Andrews Air Force Base to his rainy Thursday night departure, the General Secretary seemed to be leading a full-court media blitz. He unfailingly turned on the charm in his public appearances, such as Tuesday night's state dinner at the White House, where he and Wife Raisa joined Pianist Van Cliburn in singing Moscow Nights. Later in the week he stopped his motorcade on Connecticut Avenue to hop out and press the flesh with passersby. Gushed one thrilled bystander: "It was like the coming of the second Messiah or something." Now that's public relations...
Although it produced no new arms- control breakthroughs, Mikhail Gorbachev' s dazzling visit to Washington seemed to herald a new and more personable phase in the 40- year struggle between the U. S. and the Soviet Union. -- Vivacious and voluble, Raisa Gorbachev upstages Nancy Reagan. -- San Francisco' s newly elected mayor, Art Agnos, faces daunting problems...