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...twelve months, Nikita Khrushchev, peasant's son and cornfield commissar scorned by the party's veteran intellectuals, disposed of all his serious rivals?at least for the time. For good measure, he turned on the Soviet Union's No. 1 soldier and war hero, Marshal Georgy Zhukov, dismissed him with an airy promise of "some job for which he is experienced and qualified." He reorganized Soviet industry, laid down the law to Soviet intellectuals, stemmed the tide of desertions from the Western Communist parties, soothed the incipient rebellion in the satellites, and got from China's Mao Tse-tung...
...Talk. But before the case came to trial, Local 515 cashed checks totaling $18,500, marked down the money to "attorney fees." Two days before trial, Tennessee Deputy Fire Marshal Raymond Hixon, who had gathered the arson evidence against the defendants, happened to meet Teamster Secretary-Treasurer Boling. Testified Hixon: "He told me that there was not going to be a trial. I asked him how he knew. He said that there had been $18,500 passed to quash the indictments, and there was not to be a trial." Hixon remembered that at the time "there was quite...
Thailand. Elections ordered by the new strongman, Marshal Sarit, were completed last week. Fellow travelers are reeling backward, deprived of the support of Pibulsonggram, whom Sarit ousted in last September's coup. Rice is cheap and plentiful. Sarit and all major parties back Thailand's past SEATO commitments, and prospects are that the country will continue prosperous and stable...
...Soviet .Union's Marshal Bulganin fired off his 15-page let's-be-reasonable letters to the NATO leaders last week (see FOREIGN NEWS) to meet another logical, overriding need: to head off any new NATO sense of urgency, stall the new IRBM, and sow new uncertainties among NATO nations. But one of the Kremlin's greatest current assets in its campaign was not of the Kremlin's fabrication. It was the re-emergence of the free world's own "soft line," dimmed after Hungary, dimmed again after the Soviets walked out on last summer...
...many of these, he held positions of leadership. He helped found the Political Society, he was elected secretary of the Glee Club, he worked his way up from assistant managing editor to managing editor to president of the CRIMSON, and, though defeated for class marshal, he was elected chairman of the Class Day committee...