Russia's Armenian-born diplomatic rug peddler was the image of public affability.
No sooner did Soviet First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan arrive in New 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.
Even so, he loved them both—"Stevenson da, Castro da," But it was nyet, nyet, nyet...
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