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...generally ticketed as the anointed heir has long been ponderous Party Secretary Frol Kozlov, 52. Khrushchev himself told Averell Harriman in June 1959 that he had picked Kozlov as his successor. As recently as last April, Kozlov stood beside Khrushchev at the triumphant reception for Spaceman Gagarin. Since then, Kozlov has dropped out of sight. Last week diplomats heard that he had suffered a heart attack (Kozlov is known to have high blood pressure). Other reports were that Kozlov had merely incurred Khrushchev's displeasure on matters of policy. Whatever the reason, Kozlov is now considered permanently shelved...
...picture, which ran 3 hrs. 45 min., won ten Academy Awards and made $7,000,000 the first year it was released. In the 22 years since 1939, G.W.T.W. has been showing continuously somewhere in the world. It lasted four years in London and four in Paris, rolled four triumphant times ('39, '40, '48, '54) around the U.S. movie circuits, has been dubbed in five languages and subtitled in 30 others, has pulled 120 million customers through the turnstiles and put $125 million in the till. "Never," brags an M-G-M pressagent, "have so many...
...Castro regime's triumphant cock's crow of victory, for all its exaggerations, was closer to the bitter truth. At the Bay of Pigs, on Cuba's south coast, a force of 1,300 wellarmed, well-trained anti-Castro freedom fighters last week launched a major campaign to rid their homeland of Communist dictatorship. They were defeated within two days by a better-armed, better-led enemy, who withstood their attack and delivered a crushing counterblow. The defeat, as all the world sensed, was a tragedy not only for Cuba's exiles. It was a debacle...
Dealer in Skulls. Accused of responsibility in the millions of deaths, Eichmann protested, "I have never killed a Jew or a non-Jew-I have never killed anybody." In the tones of a triumphant bureaucrat, he swore that he had never given an order for any killing: "And I know that no one can produce a document to show that I have ever done such a thing...
...Triumphant music blared across the land. Russia's radios saluted the morning with the slow, stirring beat of the patriotic song, How Spacious Is My Country. Then came the simple announcement that shattered forever man's ancient isolation on earth: "The world's first spaceship, Vostok [East], with a man on board, has been launched on April 12 in the Soviet Union on a round-the-world orbit...