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...poor economic performance, Brezhnev took care to blame economic planners and managers for the failures. To many Sovietologists, the postponement of the next Communist Party Congress from this month to an indeterminate date late in 1970 or even 1971 suggested high-level disagreements. Said Yale's Wolfgang Leonhard: "It means either that the leaders can't agree on policies or that there's profound disarray in the Kremlin...
...Died. Leonhard Felix Fuld, 82, wealthy Manhattan recluse and philanthropist, whose fortune from stocks and real estate topped $25 million at his death and whose abiding interest (he never explained why) was the health of student nurses, for which he gave hospitals some $10 million over the years, all the while living with a sister in one of his Harlem tenements, until she died of malnutrition in 1956; of arteriosclerosis; in Trenton...
...other hand, Wolfgang Leonhard, the ex-Communist who now analyzes Red affairs for West Germany's Die Zeit, thought it was "very possible that Khrushchev will give up one of his posts, more likely the government job." The free-for-all was clearly getting out of hand; somewhat unprofessionally the Guardian's Polish-born Soviet expert, Victor Zorza, shrugged, "it's all guesswork," then plunged back into the fray...
...colleagues on an 18-hour workday, and his astonishing memory enabled him to pull the names and addresses of hundreds of loyal Communists out of an ever ready mental file. "When we set up the East Zone's first Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs," recalls Wolfgang Leonhard, a member of Ulbricht's original Berlin group who has since defected to the West, "Ulbricht assigned every department head and his staff-some 40 appointments, down to the motor-pool boss-in about an hour...
...week 56 top executives of companies that make the Atlas and its launching sites returned home from Washington after a rousing pep talk from Defense Secretary Thomas S. Gates Jr. urging them to get the Atlas back on schedule. The chief problem, conceded Air Force Brigadier General William E. Leonhard, a deputy commander of the Ballistic Missile Division, is "the difficulties of doing a wartime task under peacetime conditions and authority...