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...Oleg Penkovsky, the Soviet military scientist who funneled military secrets to the West before being arrested and executed by the Russians last year. Nosenko apparently had brought with him invaluable operational and organizational details about the Soviet intelligence network, and officials hinted that his defection had already caused a shake-up within the Russian espionage system...
When Swedish newspapers complain of government bureaucracy or badly muddled industry, they often wind up saying: "What's needed is a Nicolin." The man who has entered the Swedish language as a symbol of the shake-up and the clean sweep is tall, squarejawed Curt René Nicolin, 42, one of Sweden's brightest young businessmen and the chief troubleshooter for the family that controls or persuasively advises more than half of all Swedish industry, the Wallenbergs. Says Banker Marcus Wallenberg: "Nicolin has a sense and a feel for management...
...WITH LABOR. The Laborites devoted half of their first bold spread to a picture of Party Leader Harold Wilson-for once without a pipe-and used the rest of the space to explain the "changes the new Labor government intends to make." They ranged from a shake-up in industry ("too many directors sitting in board rooms because of their family background") to an expanded scientific program to "prevent our best brains from taking jobs abroad...
...lightweight shake-up this week, Cabot has moved three sophomores into the varsity boat, including stroke Galen Brewster, Ted Roosevelt at two and John Young at five. Junior Martyn Greenacre, a veteran of last year's varsity, has moved into bow, and last week's stroke Dick Masland is at six. The rest of the boat includes Captain Rob Russell it three, Jim MacMahon at four, Mike McKenzie at seven, and Chris Hamilton...
...name Ivan Volovchenko appeared conspicuously in a major Pravda article discussing Soviet farm production This was sudden prominence indeed far the man who had been merely head of a big state farm southeast of Moscow for the past dozen years. Through the Moscow grapevines swept rumors that a big shake-up was coming in the Soviet Ministry of Agriculture...