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Bull-necked Lavrenty Beria has had previous experience in purging purgers: in 1938, when Police Chief Yezhov was destroying his predecessors for staging "medical murders," Beria moved in, destroyed Yezhov's apparatus and became in his stead the killer of killers...
...convinced that the Russians had ever exploded any atomic bombs. The Atomic Energy Commission did not tell in detail how it keeps track of Russian progress, but Dr. James R. Arnold explained one method in the latest Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.* Any amateur with about $1,000 for apparatus can "watch" Russian atomic explosions from his own backyard...
...production. This week the Plant was closed for the sixth day as both sides argued whether Gear Fitter Fulmer had been gambling or not. Said the union: "The company is using the Fulmer case in in an effort to bludgeon the union and its members into an ineffective apparatus." Said Westinghouse: the company had to stand firm on "a principle you've got to live with forever...
...party's private files. He burrowed deep, learned much, and kept his mouth shut. Soon he was preparing the dossiers of those to be liquidated in the Great Purges of 1935-38. He replaced those who died with men loyal to himself, slowly built up a personal apparatus within the party "cadres...
...Malenkov has at his disposal an apparatus of tyranny beyond anything known in the past. Julius Caesar, who went to the Senate unarmed on the Ides of March, had to deal with-and to a degree respect-a tradition of freedom, almost absent in Russia. Napoleon I, who vainly tried to legitimize his rule with a papal anointing and a blue-blooded wife, suffered military disaster of a kind that has not yet befallen Soviet Russia. Russia's own Peter the Great, who sent his only son to death for disagreeing with his reforms and failed to pick another...