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Personality & Family. Mikoyan is a fluent talker (but speaks little English), likes dancing, cooking Armenian dishes and horseback riding, is more amiable-or at least more ingratiating -than most Soviet chieftains. After three decades as a foreign trade specialist, and numerous trips abroad, he is also more knowledgeable about the West than most of his fellow commissars. "Unlike the others," a veteran Western diplomat says of Mikoyan, "he has a rational image of the U.S." Mikoyan has four children, numerous grandchildren. His brother Artem is one of the U.S.S.R.'s top airplane designers (the MI in MIG stands...
...Snowden Cairns, U.S.A., 48, developer of the armed helicopter, commandant of the Army Aviation Center at Fort Rucker, Ala.; in the crash of a light helicopter; at Fort Rucker. "Bugs" Cairns's career told the modern history of cavalry. After West Point ('32), he started out on horseback, had switched to tanks by World War II; last year at Fort Rucker, he took over the whirring, still-experimental cavalry of the sky. The general loved his "choppers," once said: "Like Wellington's cavalry, the helicopter can strike like a wolfpack and bite. It can slice...
...Whites and Reds. Emphasizing yet again Zhivago's inner quest for the truth of his own being, Pasternak settles the doctor in a town that is his symbolic namesake, Yuriatin. Inevitably, Lara is there; and despite his remorse, Yurii is once more unfaithful to his wife. On a horseback ride back from Lara's. Physician Zhivago is kidnaped by a band of Red partisans, and for the next couple of years he is their captive medic in the White-Red struggle in Siberia...
Pope John XXIII rode through cheering crowds of Romans this week to take formal possession of the cathedral church of the Bishop of Rome-the great, grey basilica of St. John Lateran. Popes in bygone times used to make the short journey across the city on horseback, which sometimes enlivened the occasion with incident: Clement XIV (1769-74), for instance, fell from his horse on dismounting, only to assure alarmed aides that he was "confusus" but not "contusus." Sixtus V (1585-90) corrected the flattering observation of an ambassador that he had "mounted easily" with the admonition...
...Democrats campaigned for a return to Henry Wallace's Milk for Hottentots days or for the Truman Administration's Brannan Plan. Few marched to victory as all-out defenders of labor faith; indeed the great majority argued for reasonable labor reform. Where Democrats did get tagged as horseback liberals, they often lost, e.g., in Massachusetts, John Saltonstall Jr. and James M. Burns, both members of Americans for Democratic Action, were defeated for Congress even while Democratic Senator John Kennedy was leading the rest of his party to its greatest victory in history...