Word: malenkov
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...late Joseph Stalin, was formally fixed as No. 2 man in the new Soviet firmament. The Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee last week elected Khrushchev its first secretary, i.e., party boss (TIME, Sept. 7), a post that makes him second in power and influence to Premier Georgy Malenkov...
...what appeared to be a retreat from the unequivocal declaration of 1948. "This," cried Rome's conservative Il Tempo, "sets off irreparably from the U.S. a block of 47 million inhabitants of one of the most civilized countries in the world [and] . . . opens the rosiest horizons for Malenkov and Togliatti." One Italian newspaper flung a well-remembered phrase back at the U.S. "Stab in the back!" it said...
...take away load after load of government files from the massive block of buildings which front on Lenin's tomb. Behind the movers came the carpenters, with blueprints to make over Upper Row, on the Red Square's east side. Three weeks had passed since Premier Georgy Malenkov (sounding more like the editor of Vogue than boss of all the Russians) announced that "we must develop attractive textiles, smart clothing, elegant footwear...
Pravda listed him third among the Soviet bigwigs attending a recent Chinese exhibit in Moscow; he was also No. 3 in the communique announcing new Soviet concessions to East Germany and on the list of Presidium members attending the last Supreme Soviet. Current ratings: Malenkov, Molotov, Khrushchev, Marshals Voroshilov and Bulganin, Lazar Kaganovich (Stalin's brother-in-law). Still unheard from: Lavrenty Beria, once No. 2, now in jail awaiting trial as a traitor...
...that Malenkov himself has criticized the shoddiness of Soviet consumer goods, Pravda is washing some of the tattered laundry out in public, complains that Soviet rayon underwear does not survive a single laundering, that men's shirts fall apart...