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Died. Avraamy Pavlovich Zavenyagin, 55, billiard-bald chief (since 1955) of Russia's euphemistically titled Ministry of Medium Machine Building (i.e., atomic-energy commission ), wartime overseer of much of the slave-labor force; of a coronary thrombosis; in Moscow...
...hole Buick sedan came to a gentle halt and an elderly couple got out. They were tourists, just passing by. The birdlike little woman chattered warmly to the counterman as she ordered weak tea. Her husband, a tall, stooped, somber man in a sports jacket, remained aloof. His heavy, bald dome wrinkled uneasily; his face drooped; his mouth was firmly shut. He folded and unfolded his big hands, cracking a knuckle occasionally and gazing, with utter absorption, at the garish, commonplace surroundings. His blue-grey eyes shone steady and intense as the crack of dawn...
...President, to give orders to anyone I want. I'm prisoner of nobody. As for the colonels in our army, they do what they're told." But if beaver-busy Serraj does not run the country, his political seniors cannot run it without him, either. Said big, bald Prime Minister Sabri el Assali: "We are in complete agreement-President, government, people, army...
Personality: A passionate adherent to the Foreign Office's "cult of anonymity," bald, grey-eyed Careerman Caccia is a walking file on British policy problems, works quietly and effectively behind scenes, is quick and droll at the conference table. When the Russians accused the British of building a bomber base in postwar Vienna ("It was really only a flivver strip"), Caccia said that he would deliver a case of whisky if they could land a twin-engined plane there, added: "You pay the funeral expenses." The Russians dropped the complaint. Speaks French, German, Italian, Greek and a little Mandarin...
...Wilson to resign: as soon as the complicated Defense budget has been approved by Congress (probably April). One possible successor: Air Force Secretary Donald A. Quarles, 62, a good administrator and longtime scientist-executive (Bell Labs), who has managed to keep himself out of the interservice trouble. Another: bald, short (5 ft. 7 in.), terrier-tough Charles S. Thomas, former Assistant Secretary of Defense and, since 1954, the Secretary of the Navy who helped goad conservative Navy thinking toward such innovations as guided-missile ships. Still another: retiring Supreme Allied Commander in Europe and onetime Eisenhower Chief of Staff Albert...