Word: cops
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Chain of Command. In another pertinent step, the Supreme Soviet last week ratified the appointment of Central Committee Personnel Chief Aleksander Nikolaevich Shelepin, 40, as the Soviet Union's top cop, succeeding the bloodstained General Ivan Serov (TIME, Dec. 22). A youthful political commissar in the 1939-40 Russo-Finnish war, Shelepin rose through the Young Communist organization and served as its secretary from 1952 until he joined Khrushchev's headquarters staff last year. Too young to have been active in the police terrorist years of Yezhov and Beria, Shelepin has not yet acquired the hateful public reputation...
...signed by him. He shot or shipped away whole Soviet nationalities-the Crimean Tartars (200,000), the Volga Germans (500,000), the Chechen-Ingush (410,000) of the Caucasus. When the Red army rolled back the Germans, Serov crushed resisters behind the lines. Appointed Stalin's top cop in Berlin, he kidnaped German rocket scientists, dragooned slave labor for the East German uranium mines. It was at about that time that he bragged of knowing how to break every bone in a man's body without killing...
...recent talkathon with U.S. Senator Humphrey, Khrushchev had hinted of impending police changes. "Come back next year," he had said, "and you won't see so many policemen around the place." This particular cop would be neither missed nor mourned...
Pursuit (CBS, 8-9 p.m.).* Playwright Rod Serling can be counted on to keep the corn from getting too ripe when Franchot Tone plays a gentle old man agonizing over his two sons, one a cop, the other a criminal...
Neighbor. In Seattle, as Australian Ambassador Howard Beale entered the city in a police-escorted limousine, a man in another car drew alongside, gestured for Beale to open a window, shouted: "I thought you'd like to know there's a state cop following...