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Little was known about him except that he was the son of a miner in the Kursk region, joined the Bolsheviks in 1918 and served as a soldier in the civil war. As a party worker in the '30s. he caught the attention of Politburocrat Lazar Kaganovich (now First Deputy Premier and apparently No. 8 or 9 in the hierarchy), who brought him to Moscow. After the vast 1937-38 purge had carried off hundreds of thousands of his comrades, Khrushchev was sent into the Ukraine to help build up the demoralized party organization. He became a Ukrainian expert...
...West Virginia, more recently a member of the West Virginia legislature; of cancer; in Bethesda. Md. Elected to the Senate when he was 29 as a New Deal Democrat, Holt waited six months until he reached the required age of 30 before taking his seat, quickly alienated his coal-miner supporters by filibustering to death the Guffey-Vinson coal bill, was characterized by the United Mine Workers as "the dirtiest traitor of all." Defeated in the 1940 primary, he retired temporarily from politics, turned Republican in 1950, got the G.O.P. gubernatorial nomination but lost the election...
...Palace makes a bright pendant on any hotel chain. Opened in 1875 by Mrs. Johnston's grandfather, U.S. Senator William Sharon, who made millions in the Comstock lode and never got over his miner's habit of carrying a pistol, the $5,000,000 Palace was then considered the most luxurious hotel in the world. It had 800 rooms, and the smallest was 16 ft. square. Sarah Bernhardt stayed in an eight-room, suite with her parrot and baby tiger; General Grant came as a Civil War hero, had to mumble speeches when he lost his false teeth...
URANIUM STRIKE on the Colorado Plateau may turn the nation's biggest gold producer into a uranium miner. Homestake Mining Co., which produced $18 million worth of gold last year and has spent $500,000 looking for uranium, has discovered a rich deposit at the end of a 3,200-ft. tunnel driven underground next to Millionaire Geologist Charles Steen's fabulous Mi Vida mine...
...conference did not get to Len's resolution last year. But it caught the eye of General Secretary Morgan Phillips, a stocky ex-miner from Wales, one of Labor's shrewdest political brains and a politico who can sniff a budding political bloom a year off. Had not the Conservatives profited by Churchill's appeal for one more "parley at the summit"? Phillips dispatched a letter to Peking. Months later, at Geneva, China's Chou En-lai gave a benevolent go-ahead...