He gave candy to kids, visited supermarkets, talked about getting some da, da, dayes, yes, yesinto U.S.-Soviet relations. For his apparent good-fellowship, he won applause on the luncheon circuit, handshakes from bankers and industrialists, cheers from many a columnist who should have known better. But when the U.S.S.R.'s First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan got down to business in closed-door meetings with President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles last week, he did not budge by so much as a santimetr from familiar Kremlin positions.
Mikoyan had no answer for U.S. editorialists and pundits, who continually clamor at the U.S. State...