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...suave, handsome, cagey administrator, Brezhnev is deeply committed to creation of the economic and social climate in which Russia's rising generation hopes finally to achieve Karl Marx's vision of "abundance in our days." As Nikita Khrushchev proclaimed last month: "If a man has one suit, God help him to have two, and then three!" If most Russians had one suit in Stalin's time, it was under Khrushchev that they got Suit No. 2. The third will come along any decade...
...during a state visit to Yugoslavia, where his chic daughter Galina stole the show, Brezhnev embarrassed the government by making a violent attack on the U.S. at a time when Washington was pondering renewal of its aid program to Tito...
...officials who have conferred with him, though, Brezhnev seems articulate, well informed, open-minded. In conversation with Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Glenn Seaborg last May, Brezhnev agreed that most Soviet buildings are hideous, volunteered that the regime plans to send young architects abroad to study...
Twice Lucky. As he moved up in the Ukraine party hierarchy before World War II, Brezhnev attracted Khrushchev's attention. Like his mentor, he joined the close-knit wartime coterie of political officers on the crumbling southern front. Rising swiftly after the war, Brezhnev was elected in 1952 to the party's Central Committee and Secretariat, became a candidate member of its executive arm, the Presidium. In 1954, he got his big job in Kazakhstan. Blessed by adequate rainfall and an eager labor force, he brought in the first two successful Virgin Lands harvests, returned to Moscow...
...Brezhnev was kicked upstairs from the Secretariat to the largely ceremonial chairmanship of the Presidium of the party, which he adroitly used to keep his picture in Pravda. But at the June 1963 party plenum, Brezhnev was restored to the Secretariat, and thus became the only other full member of the Presidium (after Khrushchev) to hold state and party posts...