Word: vladimir
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was not a baggy suit among the lot of them, or a frown, when twelve visiting Russian farm officials showed up at the Department of Agriculture last week for an appointment with Secretary Ezra Taft Benson. Bald and effusive, Russia's Deputy Minister of Agriculture Vladimir Matskevich presented Benson with a couple of souvenir lacquered boxes, one of them showing a family of bears gamboling happily in a forest. Benson asked how to say "thank you" in Russian, said "spasibo," and handed Matskevich a 4-H Club tie-clip, a photograph of the Benson family and a book...
...Vladimir Matskevich wound up his visit to the U.S. in a surplus-goods store, where he bought a down hunting vest and suede hunting jacket to take back to chilly Russia. In there exuding humanity and good will to the end, one of the Russians commented: "He's a country man. He buys the clothes for hunting...
...twelve-man touring delegation of Russian farmers (TIME, Aug.11), led by Acting Agriculture Minister Vladimir Matskevich, reached the farmlands of Wyoming, Nebraska, South Dakota and Texas last week. Their repeated verdict on U.S. marvels: "It is interesting, but we have something like it in Russia." Matskevich neatly demonstrated, however, that he could gather in a few U.S. idioms. "They ought to sell this air by the pound in New York," he remarked brightly to the farmers of Nebraska. And in Texas he added: "Texans don't brag nearly as much as they could...
...White City stadium, Chataway swapped pacing chores every quarter mile with his countryman Derek Ibbotson, took off on his own in the last half mile of a three-mile race and broke the tape in 13:23.2-3.2 seconds faster than the record held by Russia's Vladimir...
...delegates turned out to be top-drawer officials, ranging from a big collective-farm chairman to the boss of all Soviet farming, Acting Minister of Agriculture Vladimir Matskevich, 45, a suave, shaven-headed Ukrainian henchman of Communist Party Chief Nikita Khrushchev. Under the influence of Iowa's warm welcome and 90° heat, they quickly melted, shed their dark jackets, switched to shirtsleeves, straw hats and smiles. When someone complained about the heat, Matskevich stole Iowa's favorite reply: "Yes, but it's very good for the corn...