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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...
...tombs were rich in that. Being a practical man, Czar Peter simply gave orders that the looters be looted in turn. Soon plaques and buckles were pouring into the imperial coffers. Thus began the world's greatest collection of Scythian art, now in the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad...
Careless of the intent crowd in Moscow's Variety Theater, Leningrad Grand Master Mikhail Botvinnik, 49, concentrated on the board in front of him, played with icy calmness to recapture the world chess championship from the man who took it away from him last year: nervous, chain-smoking Mikhail Tal, 24. For the aging Botvinnik, it was a triumph of selfdiscipline: all year he had stayed in training, sharpening his strategy while Tal was living it up in Europe. Botvinnik's endurance paid off in the grueling, three-day 20th game when Tal slumped wearily in his seat...
...University physics professor who spent two weeks in Russia last month under the Harvard-Leningrad exchange program received a "courteous and very friendly" reception--at least until the Cuban invasion began...
...conversation, in courtesy at the laboratories, and in providing me with a farewell dinner," University of Leningrad personnel were friendly throughout his visit, remarked Kenneth T. Bainbridge, George Vasmer Leverett Professor of Physics, who returned to Cambridge last week...