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...heavy-faced man in a white suit smiled contentedly and ran a comb through his mop of greying hair. Frozen-Faced Molotov's successor as Soviet Foreign Minister proved a man of many mobile impressions (see cuts). A year ago Dmitry Shepilov came to Cairo as editor of Pravda; a few months later came Nasser's arms deal with the Communists, which set Nasser up in business as a man no longer dependent on the West alone. Now, as Foreign Minister, Shepilov was, back to inspect his handiwork. This time he also came bearing gifts, or the offer...
Last week a two-paragraph item in Pravda reported that Lazar Moiseevich Kaganovich, at his own request, had resigned his post as labor boss of Russia. His successor is Alexander Petrovich Volkov, chairman of the rubber-stamp Council of the Union, and a man so little known that the latest edition of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia does not even list...
...associated with that of Stalin to be the one to make them. His parents had been respectable people from the Volga region named Scriabin, related to the composer. Young Vyacheslav Mikhailovich ingratiated himself with the Bolsheviks by persuading a wealthy young bourgeois friend to finance a clandestine newspaper called Pravda. To this, and the fact that one of the first editors of Pravda was a young Georgian bandit named Djugashvili, alias Koba, alias Stalin, he owed his future. His own underground alias was derived from molot, meaning hammer. But though he was as methodical and repetitive as a foundry trip...
Ascendency: Made editor in chief of Pravda (1952), which does not make him a newspaperman ("our most important job: to propagandize"). Same year elected Deputy to the Supreme Soviet and chairman Foreign Affairs...
Committee, Council of Nationalities (upper house). Although he published a eulogy on Stalin's economic theories a few months before Stalin's death, he apparently had no trouble making the transition to the new gang. He attacked the consumer-goods program and "vulgarizers of Marxism" in Pravda (Jan. 24, 1955) two weeks before demotion of Malenkov as Premier...