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...Cell Game. Khrushchev's Presidium rivals thought Khrushchev was overdoing it. They had thought so ever since he rose in the Kremlin's Great Hall at the 20th Party Congress in 1956 to deliver his weeping, three-hour indictment of Stalin as a "murderer" and "maniac." They sprang their showdown last June, and it was a close thing. The majority present voted to deny Khrushchev the chair, and Bulganin took over. Did the Old Guard think that because they had destroyed Stalin's police power, they could vote Khrushchev freely out of his job as they had voted Malenkov...
...Central Committee announced that Zhukov had been dropped forthwith from the Presidium. "The secretariat of the Central Committee has been instructed to provide him with other work...
...into Michie Stadium, loudly sang the Army fight song and settled back to watch the cadet varsity kick off to Colgate. The game was six minutes old when the United Press slipped Ike a piece of copy on the ouster of his old wartime colleague Marshal Zhukov from the Presidium and the Central Committee of the Communist Party. Ike sent thanks to the reporter, settled back to watch Army win. Reporters had not seen Ike so cheerful and relaxed in a long time. An old Army wife explained it easily: "He's back with his own people...
...even Khrushchev dared move precipitately against the most popular man in Russia and its greatest living hero. Not until early last month did Khrushchev feel ready to make his move. Then, with all the fanfare due Zhukov's rank as Defense Minister and a member of the Presidium that rules the Communist Party, the unsuspecting marshal was shipped off on a state visit to Yugoslavia-a trip that was scheduled to last two weeks but was suddenly extended to three when Zhukov unexpectedly got orders to proceed from Yugoslavia to Albania...
Zhukov went straight from the airport to a meeting of the Presidium. By late that afternoon it was clear that he had refused to accept the proffered "promotion," and that the showdown Khrushchev had hoped to avoid was under way. So lengthy was the debate that Khrushchev and other Presidium members who had accepted invitations to an Iranian embassy reception were twice obliged to postpone the hour of their arrival. When they finally did show up, all that came out of the Presidium was the curt announcement that Zhukov had been replaced as Defense Minister by Marshal Rodion Malinovsky...