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...policymaking Communists in the Soviet Union. Out went his closest rival for leadership, suety, triple-chinned Georgy Malenkov, 55, whom the British, having seen them all, considered the ablest of the Russian leaders. Down went Khrushchev's severest and most obstinate ideological critic, flint-eyed Vyacheslav ("The Hammer") Molotov, one of the old hands who prepared the Russian Revolution of 1917. Another old durable to go was Khrushchev's most influential industrial opponent, beetle-browed Lazar Kaganovich, the only Jew in the top Soviet hierarchy and the man who originally gave Khrushchev his start toward the big time...
...argument, the Red activists tossed flaming Molotov cocktails into the farmers' haystacks, poisoned their cattle's water with creosote. By the end of April three-fourths of the farm hands in the district were refusing to work, either in sympathy with the Communist cause or in fear of Communist bullyboys. Red big shots poured into the district to pour oratorical fuel on the flames. Czechoslovakia's Prague radio chimed in across the air waves urging the Po strikers...
Fortnight ago, CBS got a surprise telephone call from the Soviet embassy in Washington. In response to a recent invitation, the biggest of all, Communist Party Chief Nikita Khrushchev, had agreed to face the cameras of Face the Nation. Still wary from its experience with Molotov, Face the Nation nevertheless last week sent a crew of six to Moscow to begin preparations for a filmed "free" exchange between Khrushchev and several U.S. correspondents in Moscow to be broadcast over 92 CBS TV stations and about 150 radio stations on Sunday, June 2. To avoid the loss of time in translation...
...competition for big names to face their various batteries of newsmen, TV's three big panel shows have kept invitations and entreaties flowing to the Kremlin. Once, CBS's Face the Nation thought it had won the game, and got ready to televise Russia's Vyacheslav Molotov. But Molotov suddenly reneged, agreed to go on only if questions were submitted in advance. NBC's Meet the Press and ABC's Press Conference ran into the same insistence on canned questions. All three persisted, and for one of them it paid...
...been a functionary in the Moscow party organization (Malenkov's old stamping ground) and that his meteoric rise resembled that of many technocrat commissars. In his new job he ranks as one of the Soviet Union's six First Deputy Premiers (the others: Kaganovich, Mikoyan, Molotov, Pervukhin, Saburov...