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...Judging from your cover, with pictures of Kosygin, Brezhnev, Wilson, Johnson, and the bomb in the background [Oct. 23], I would guess that you had a few problems in trying to decide which the most significant news story of the week was. At any rate, you have my sympathy for the long hours and white hairs this past frantic week must have caused you. Your reporting was fine...
...Brezhnev & Kosygin
...Khrushchev's resignation brought to my mind your April 24, 1964, cover on Lenin. The story, as you recall, said that the Order of Lenin was pinned on Khrushchev by President Leonid Brezhnev, and that Khrushchev's colleagues saluted him as a "militant leader, a fiery tribune, giving his burning energy in the service of the cause of Communism." Sic transit gloria...
Simplistic Sense. His televised appearance sometimes seemed like A Child's Garden of Communism: as he talked about the new Russian B. & K. team-Brezhnev and Kosygin-the screen flashed pictures of the pair that must have been at least 20 years old and looked like something out of a police lineup...
...least, they have plenty to be unpretentious about. The start of their rule was not auspicious. Nikita Khrushchev was deposed and out of sight, but his invisible presence still badly cramped the style of the new Moscow team. When Premier Aleksei Kosygin and his teammate Leonid Brezhnev, new head of the Communist Party, made their first joint public appearance in Red Square to hail Russia's three most recent cosmonauts, applause from the onlookers was markedly listless. Visibly ruffled, Brezhnev stared down on them and muttered: "K chortu." That meant "Go to the devil," and because someone had forgotten...