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...Dictator Proposes. A party official read off the routine resignation of the old government. Then old (77) President of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet Kliment Voroshilov-just re-elected to another term in his largely honorific post -strode briskly to the rostrum and took his stand behind the massed mikes. Deputies leaned forward, earphones clamped on their heads. In the expectant silence, the whirring of movie cameras could be heard...
...Kaganovich to overthrow him, and then turned on the marshal. In this imposing progress down murderer's row, Bulganin was Khrushchev's ninth major victim. Moscow diplomats guessed that Bulganin, who is said to have taken increasingly to the bottle of late, might hang on to his Presidium seat for a while as a Deputy Premier...
...polls this week. Students of the tides of power were more interested in Pravda's pre-election compilations of how many election districts nominated various Kremlin leaders as their candidates. In the past Stalin's name had led all the rest. 1958's score for Presidium members...
...year-end Plenum, Khrushchev moved a clutch of his secretariat juniors into the party Presidium in place of Molotov and other old stagers flung out in last June's big command scrap. Of the top Presidium's 15 members, all but five Bulganin, Voroshilov, Mikoyan, Shvernik and Kozlov) are now Khrushchev subbordinates who also hold jobs in the party secretariat...
...Move. At home, Khrushchev nominated himself as spokesman of the New Class in the Soviet Union. He was careful to disassociate himself from Stalin's terror, and the New Class was grateful. Khrushchev himself told British Laborite Aneurin Bevan the story of how it had been before. Presidium members, said Khrushchev, drew up a plan to decentralize the economy after World War II, and Voznesensky, the chief economic planner, took it to Stalin. "Voznesensky came back," said Khrushchev, "and told them Stalin had denounced him as a traitor to socialism. This made them angry because Voznesensky had merely done what...