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...generally ticketed as the anointed heir has long been ponderous Party Secretary Frol Kozlov, 52. Khrushchev himself told Averell Harriman in June 1959 that he had picked Kozlov as his successor. As recently as last April, Kozlov stood beside Khrushchev at the triumphant reception for Spaceman Gagarin. Since then, Kozlov has dropped out of sight. Last week diplomats heard that he had suffered a heart attack (Kozlov is known to have high blood pressure). Other reports were that Kozlov had merely incurred Khrushchev's displeasure on matters of policy. Whatever the reason, Kozlov is now considered permanently shelved...
First sign that Kozlov was slipping in Khrushchev's favor came in early 1958, when Polyansky replaced him as premier of the Russian Soviet Republic, which includes both Moscow and Leningrad and is the biggest and richest of all Soviet republics. Thereafter, it became slowly apparent that Khrushchev was transferring his affections from the flannel-mouthed Kozlov to the nimble young newcomer. In last winter's Party Plenum debate on the agricultural crisis, Polyansky's role was second only to Khrushchev's. When Khrushchev followed up the debate with a two-month, cross-country talkathon...
...plus a smidgen of Arabic retained from a World War II stint with the U.S. Office of War Information in Cairo. She worked seven years for the LIFE Paris bureau before joining TIME in 1958. Since then, her assignments have included covering facets of the U.S. tours of Frol Kozlov, Nikita Khrushchev, Sekou Toure and Charles de Gaulle...
...denouncing the U.S. in Austria, his subordinates in Moscow were acting as if some of their best friends were Americans. Almost 300 of the cream of Moscow society showed up for the U.S. embassy's Fourth of July celebration. Among them: First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan, Secretaries Frol Kozlov and Nikolai Ignatov...
...After Kozlov put in a plug for peaceful coexistence and confirmed that U-2 Pilot Francis Powers would be given a public trial, the three strolled to the drawing room to listen to a visiting celebrity, Pianist Van Cliburn. As Cliburn launched into Liszt's Twelfth Rhapsody, Mikoyan put a fatherly hand on the shoulder of U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson's daughter Sherry. When Cliburn swung into some lively Russian songs, Mikoyan joined in the chorus...