MOSCOW'S IMAGE MAKERS WITH ALL THE HOOPLA ABOUT AMERICAN PRODUCTS COMING OUT 
OF MOSCOW LAST WEEK, ONE MIGHT HAVE THOUGHT MADISON AVENUE HAD 
BEEN MOVED TO GORKY STREET . FIRST CAME ENDORSEMENT OF BLUE 
JEANS, A COMMODITY THE KREMLIN HAD ALWAYS DISDAINED AS A CAPITALIST 
FAD WORN ONLY BY PARASITES . NONSENSE, DECLARED IZVESTIA, " TEXAS 
TROUSERS " ARE / VERY USEFUL, " ADDING REASSURINGLY THAT " 
THE ORIGIN OF BLUE JEANS IS NOT WITH HOLLYWOOD MOVIE STARS, 
BUT WITH REAL COWBOYS, WHO DON'T TAKE PART IN WILD CHASES 
AND ROMANTIC GUNPLAY, BUT IN HONEST AND HARD WORK . / 
NEXT, IT WAS NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV'S TURN TO PEDDLE TWO OTHER U.S 
. ITEMS : POTATO CHIPS AND CORNFLAKES . ALMOST WISTFULLY, HE 
PAUSED IN A REPORT TO RECALL HIS TRIP TO THE U.S 
. IN 1959, AND HOW " WE SAT THERE IN THE 
PLANE, TALKING AND MUNCHING FACTORYMADE FRIED POTATO CHIPS . THEY WERE 
NUTRITIOUS AND TASTY . AND THEY ARE CHEAP . " KHRUSHCHEV'S 
PLUG FOR CORNFLAKES WAS EQUALLY ENTHUSIASTIC . MANY PEOPLE IN THE 
U.S . AND BRITAIN, HE REPORTED, HAPPILY BREAKFAST ON " VITAMINIZED 
FLAKES OF CORN WHICH ARE EATEN WITH MILK . " UNFORTUNATELY, 
HE ADDED, " WE CONSUME CORN IN NIGGARDLY AMOUNTS BECAUSE INDUSTRY 
DOES NOT PRODUCE THE FOODS WE NEED CATCHING THE SPIRIT, IZVESTIA 
MADE ONE FINAL SUGGESTION : RUSSIANS SHOULD EAT MORE POPCORN CALLED 
" AIR CORN " BY THE SOVIETS . " THE AMERICANS 
LOVE IT . CHILDREN AND ADULTS ENJOY IT . THEY SELL 
SMALL PACKAGES IN THEATERS, RAILROAD STATIONS AND AIRPORTS . " SOVIET 
FAMILIES WOULD LOVE IT ALSO, SAID THE NEWSPAPER, WHICH HELPFULLY GAVE 
DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO GROW HYBRID CORN FOR POPPING . 
