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Black Tie. Guests at a Cuban embassy reception, including Soviet Ambassador Mikhail Menshikov, ogled a revolution in clothes: Castro, in a sharp green uniform, with comandante's star, white shirt and black tie. "It was orders," explained the Prime Minister, pointing to Cuban Ambassador to the U.S. Ernesto Dihigo. "I don't like...
Into London, in response to a longstanding invitation from a group of British Laborite backbenchers, flew a high-powered Soviet parliamentary delegation headed by gaunt, shock-haired Mikhail Suslov, 56, top Stalinist theoretician. He chucked babies under the chin, watched the House of Commons in action, and laid the inevitable wreath on the Highgate grave of Karl Marx. But his real interest was in long, private discussions with top Laborites Hugh Gaitskell...
Economy Model. Moscow's Professor Mikhail Petrovich Chumakov tried this material on 30,000 children. He was delighted with its simplicity. His staff had to put only one droplet in a teaspoonful of syrup, and the kids swallowed it-thus cutting out the need for hypodermic needles, which are expensive and can be dangerous. Then there was the economy: one-hundredth of the injection dose. Perhaps most important: live virus taken by mouth multiplies in the digestive tract, quickly triggers development of antibodies and protects the whole system. The Russians argue that the killed form, injected into the bloodstream...
...decided again to hold back public release of the damning evidence. Instead, the State Department privately confronted the Russians with the recording, hoping that the Soviets would settle the incident quickly to avoid worldwide condemnation. Deputy Under Secretary of State Robert Murphy tried it first, called Soviet Ambassador Mikhail Menshikov into his Washington office. "Smiling Mike" refused to listen to the recording, but Murphy handed him a Russian transcript. Result: silence...
...actually been outvoted in the inner leadership, 7 to 4 as Western specialists had suspected at the time (TIME, Sept. 16, 1957). To the routine condemnation of the "loathsome" Malenkov and his allies, Kaganovich, Molotov and Bulganin, Leningrad's party secretary demanded that former Presidium Members Mikhail Pervukhin and Maxim Saburov admit that they, too, had sided with "the anti-party group" against Khrushchev...