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...Rising Deputy. When Stalin split the unwieldy Soviet security apparatus into two branches, Kruglov became MVD boss, controlling a crack security army of a million men. His deputy: Colonel Ivan Serov. After Stalin's death. Internal Affairs Minister Beria began liquidating top security bosses, but before he had gone far-or far enough-he was himself arrested. The day of Beria's arrest. Kruglov's troops blocked all exits and entrances to Moscow, froze the city tight. The same day, Premier Malenkov named Kruglov Minister of Internal Affairs in place of Beria...
...labyrinthine politics of Soviet power, control of the police apparatus is vital. Khrushchev and his party cadres have apparently gained one more sector on the eve of this week's 20th Party Congress. But they still advance carefully. The Pravda announcement referred to Kruglov as "comrade," indicating that he was not, so far, an "enemy of the people." All five previous bosses of Russia's secret police either died at their jobs or were executed shortly after being removed...
...Merle F. Walker and Robert Hardie, at the Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Ariz., measured Pluto's light with photoelectric apparatus. They found that it varied slightly in brightness and that the variations repeated themselves regularly, as if dark markings were passing across Pluto's disk. The period turned out to be 6.390 earth days, so Walker and Hardie concluded that this is the length of Pluto...
Bendix's Lumicon is a sophisticated television apparatus. It has a camera tube that views a scene, such as a dimly lighted room, and translates it into a stream of electronic signals. Then a picture tube (with 1,029 "lines" of light instead of the usual 525) turns the signals into a reproduction of the scene in front of the camera. The big difference between the Lumicon and an ordinary TV setup is that the electronic signals are strengthened enormously, making the picture on the tube much brighter than the scene that the camera is viewing...
...world's diamond production; in Gerrard's Cross, England. One of five brothers who built the worldwide Oppenheimer holdings (i.e., the Anglo-American Corp., with more than 200 subsidiaries in gold, diamonds, copper and other enterprises, worth about $3 billion), Louis Oppenheimer headed the marketing apparatus of the family's diamond interests, while his brother Sir Ernest ("The King of Diamonds") became director of the corporation in Johannesburg...