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Naturally, Khrushchev takes none of the blame for the fiasco. Three years ago he found a scapegoat in Kazakhstan Party Boss Nikolai Belyaev, fired him for his "errors." Last week Belyaev's successor, Dinmukhamed Kunaev, was similarly bounced-for "lapses" in his work. For good measure, Moscow also purged the former Premier of the territory from the local party's Central Committee...
Even in Moscow there was not a hint of those old familiar ultimatums. A Khrushchev message to East German Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht pointedly omitted any reference to a separate peace treaty; Izvestia's chief spokesman on Germany, Commentator Nikolai Polyanov, asked "What's next?" in a foreign affairs article, but the question was aimed at other cold war issues. Not once since President Kennedy's firm stand in Cuba, in fact, have the Communists tried their tough stuff at the most critical East-West boundary of them all. For the West it was a lesson...
Choirs sang the cosmonauts' song, and an ancient film on the life of Nikolai Zhu-kovsky (1847-1921), the father of Russian aviation, was resurrected for the occasion; the picture's final deathbed scene dissolved slowly into a shot of Soviet spaceships soaring off into the unknown...
...NIKOLAI PODGORNY, 59, another Ukrainian, 4½ years ago ousted an early Khrushchev favorite, hard-boiled Fellow Ukrainian Aleksei Kirichenko, as party boss in Khrushchev's former fiefdom. Early last year Khrushchev delivered a scorching assault against Podgorny for having blamed bad weather for poor corn yields ("The crop was pilfered, stolen, and yet you say weather prevented growing a good harvest?"). But by the time of the next harvest, Podgorny could report better news. With a smile, he told Khrushchev at the October congress that the Ukraine had doubled its sale of grain to the state...
...February issue, for instance, has a long article on Nikolai Mamai, Hero of Socialist Labor, who boosted coal production by inspiring his fellow miners to compete for record outputs. The excerpt below is typical...