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Stalin quickly recognized Kosygin's administrative skills, and promoted him into the Politburo in less than a decade. Soon after, the dictator turned on his protégé during a purge of Leningrad party officials in 1949-1950. Nikita Khrushchev recalled that Kosygin's life "was hanging by a thread. Kosygin must have drawn a lucky lottery ticket." Again, in late 1952, Kosygin's life was in jeopardy when Stalin demoted him and denounced one of his close colleagues...
Elsewhere, Republicans were carried to victory by the surging Reagan tide: in Pennsylvania, former Philadelphia District Attorney Arlen Specter edged out former Pittsburgh Mayor Peter Flaherty; in North Carolina, John East, a professor of political science at East Carolina State University and protégé of Republican Senator Jesse Helms, came from behind to unseat Democratic Incumbent Robert Morgan; in Georgia, Herman Talmadge was upset by Businessman Mack Mattingly. Ironically, the man who next to Reagan is most identified with conservatism almost lost. Arizona's Barry Goldwater, 71, seemed infirm to many voters but managed...
...tutored by George Santayana and recruited as a protégé by William James and Teddy Roosevelt; he lived long enough to receive an honorary degree (from Princeton) on the same platform with Bob Dylan. During his 85 years, Walter Lippmann came to know twelve U.S. Presidents personally and nearly everyone else who mattered in the 20th century. He consorted with poets and politicians, philosophers and financiers. He discussed psychoanalysis with Sigmund Freud, socialism with George Bernard Shaw, economics with John Maynard Keynes, law with Louis Brandeis, Utopias with H.G. Wells, painting with Bernard Berenson and the grandeur...
...generation of Chinese leaders moved an important step closer to power last week when the National People's Congress, meeting in Standing Committee, promoted two provincial protégés of Senior Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping. Former Sichuan Province Governor Zhao Ziyang, 61, and former Anhui Province Party Leader Wan Li, 64, were both elevated to the rank of Vice Premier; to make room for them, two longtime holdovers from the fading era of the late Chairman Mao Tse-tung were asked to resign. Zhao in particular was singled out by Deng as the new administrator who would...
...Nancy Drew first met. To celebrate the anniversary, and the 58th adventure of the adroit adolescent detective, The Flying Saucer Mystery, her publishers tossed a mystery-theme party for Adams, who writes the Drew dramas as Carolyn Keene. At 87, the author is spry, but less timeless than her protégée. In half a century, Nancy has aged only two years, to 18, and done little more than change hair styles and add slacks and shorts to her swing-era sweater sets and pleated skirts. Despite a 50-year romance, Boyfriend Ned Nickerson is still allowed...