Word: marshalled
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...General Secretary of the Communist Party. In the twilight of a political career that virtually spanned the history of the Soviet Union, he accumulated extraordinary honors. Although his contributions to the Red Army's wartime efforts were largely limited to political propagandizing, he gained the exalted rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union. He was the only Russian in history to have been decorated with five gold stars as a Hero of the Soviet Union and of Socialist Labor, his country's equivalent of both the Congressional Medal of Honor and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Brezhnev...
Central Asia and Siberia, and was lucky enough to be able to proclaim a bumper wheat crop for 1956. In 1960 he succeeded Marshal Kliment Voroshilov in the post of Soviet President. Brezhnev took advantage of the undemanding job to travel widely outside the U.S.S.R. as a spokesman for Khrushchev's foreign policy. In 1964 he was a member of the conspiracy against his former mentor that forced Khrushchev into retirement. Brezhnev's reward: the high-ranking post of First Secretary of the Communist Party. In 1966 Brezhnev assumed the grander title of General Secretary that had been...
...Andropov group" in the Politburo is believed to be composed of Defense Minister Marshal Dmitri Ustinov, 74, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, 73, Kazakh Party Chief Dinmukhammed Kunayev, 70, and Vladimir Shcherbitsky...
...Constance Philippa runs away on her wedding night, leaving in her bed a dressmaker's dummy with which her unknowing husband consummates the marriage. Fleeing west, Constance disguises herself so persuasively as the brave and manly Philippe Fox that she is appointed Assistant Deputy to the United States Marshal for Southeast Arizona, and inexplicably becomes a 'member of the masculine gender, complete in all physiological requirements as to genitalia...
DIED. Ivan Bagramian, 84, leading Soviet military strategist during World War II and commander of the First Baltic Army; in Moscow. Armenian-born Marshal Bagramian became a national hero in the Soviet Union when in the winter and spring of 1943-44 he directed the campaign that led to the taking of the Baltic republics and the breaking of the Nazi invasion on that front...