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Ever a fine figurehead of a man, portly Nikolai Bulganin smiled and applauded last week as his successor tipped him into the dustbin of history...
Reading off his new ministerial list to the Supreme Soviet, Khrushchev was a long time getting to his old sidekick's name. Bulganin got the job of chairman of the state bank, the very post he held 20 years ago when B. and K. were not yet a junketing, summit-going team but only a cloth-capped pair of commissars. He now ranks 44th in the roster of 45, just after Police Chief Ivan Serov and well below such eminences as Minister of Bakery Products Leonid Korniets...
Back in 1955, when Soviet Communism wanted to smile, shake hands and play pen pals with the West after Stalin's death, the Kremlin had use for Bulganin's smooth good looks, benign good manners, and easy way with a glass. Bulganin was an Old Bolshevik whose long years of managing Soviet agencies without ever saying a flat yes or no had only enhanced his ability to look, dress and propose toasts like a Belgian burgomaster. "A real gentleman;' cooed a French chorus girl from a visiting troupe he once called on backstage at the Bolshoi...
Khrushchev had been forced to go through the pretense of deference while Bulganin sat down to talk with Eisenhower and the other heads of government. Now Khrushchev could dispense with stooges and talk man to man-and nimble-witted Nikita Khrushchev would like nothing better than such a talk with Ike Eisenhower and Harold Macmillan...
...Electric Power Stations, and kept around for the back row of group pictures. With the help of Marshal Zhukov, Khrushchev defeated last year's drive by Malenkov, Molotov and Kaganovich to overthrow him, and then turned on the marshal. In this imposing progress down murderer's row, Bulganin was Khrushchev's ninth major victim. Moscow diplomats guessed that Bulganin, who is said to have taken increasingly to the bottle of late, might hang on to his Presidium seat for a while as a Deputy Premier...