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First Among Equals. Aptest pupil in Stalin's school of political power, Khrushchev brought a new technique to Communist maneuver. Not even Stalin could match his deft juggling of friend and foe in shifting combinations and permutations. Moving into the key post of party secretary after Stalin's death, he teamed with Malenkov and Marshal Zhukov in 1953 to liquidate Secret Police Boss Beria. But that was the last time he had recourse to Stalin's murderous methods of eliminating rivals. When he joined with Molotov and Kaganovich to force Malenkov out of the premiership...
...Author Morris has also captured the poignance of the lonely in the gregarious accents of Midwest speech. At novel's end there is a fracas in the bull ring, and the boy with the Davy Crockett hat touches the still-warm hide of the bull. It is the aptest symbol for what is wrong with this consistently intelligent but overly symbolized novel - still warm but, by the narrowest of margins, dead...
...Nice American, The Center of the Stage), Novelist Sykes cleaves right to the secret core of his characters-ex-Communist literary snobs, envenomed small-town society queens, Point Four evangelists, coronary-conscious manufacturers. But this time he has also hacked a plot from political headlines, and so blunted his aptest insights...
...Diamond's freedom on a murder charge. Dewey and Medalie admire each other's legal talents. John Foster Dulles, 56, a tall, stooped, bespectacled Wall Street lawyer and impeccable Presbyterian, whose life work has been advising people on international affairs. Tom Dewey, he says, is the aptest pupil he ever had. A Princeton graduate, he studied international law at the Sorbonne, was secretary to the Hague Peace Conference when only 19. He directed the legal aspects of much European financing after World War I, in 1927 worked out a financial-stabilization plan for Poland...
...Reader Marx the threadbare dis tinction of pinning the aptest adjective...