Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three minutes, speaking before the Supreme Soviet, Nikita Khrushchev decreed the removal of Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev from the presidency of the Soviet Union and won the automatic assent of the 1,443 "worker and peasant" delegates. For Brezhnev, 57, the step down was really a step up. More clearly than ever, Brezhnev (TIME Cover, Feb. 21) is now Khrushchev's heir apparent. Being freed from the mere protocol tasks carried out by the President (formally known as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet), he can now apply himself more vigorously to the job that really counts: helping...
Brezhnev's successor in the presidency: Anastas Mikoyan, 68, who was plainly due for a rest. Active for three decades as top Soviet foreign trade specialist, the Armenian was in the hospital twice last year, needed a softer job after his recent active period as Khrushchev's troubleshooter abroad...
...Khrushchev, it seemed a safe enough solution: Mikoyan as loyal front man in the official hierarchy, Brezhnev as loyal stalwart and deputy in the party ranks...
...Economica, Rumania's Boss Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej warned that Comeconomics, if pushed to the limits Moscow envisions, might well drive Rumania out of the scheme. If the Russians persisted in their efforts to relegate Rumania to the role of a mere supplier of raw materials (primarily oil), then Khrushchev might just as well count Rumania out as far as any assistance in Russia's fight with the Red Chinese was concerned. After long consideration, Izvestia found his objections justified. Even more significant was the publication this month in Moscow's journal, Problems of Peace and Socialism...
Died. Maurice Thorez, 64, longtime French Communist chieftain, a coal miner turned professional revolutionary, who took control of the party as secretary general in 1934, ran it as a mirror of the Kremlin, slavishly devoted first to Stalin, then to Khrushchev, seeing it grow to nearly 1,000,000 members after World War II only to decline rapidly (current membership: 240,000) in the face of European prosperity, until, suffering from chronic ill health, he "elevated" himself to president last May, leaving everyday tactics to another man; of an apparent heart attack aboard a Russian ship traveling to Yalta...