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...star of Georgy Malenkov and his technocrat-commissars was on the wane, that of Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev rapidly rising. Shortly after Malenkov's dramatic resignation (February 1955), the world learned that Kruglov was not, after all, top Soviet security man, but that there had existed for some months a higher State Security Committee, presided over by Kruglov's former deputy Ivan Serov. When Khrushchev went junketing to India, it was Serov who went along with him. Meanwhile, Minister Kruglov's department was under oblique criticism: his organization had failed to curb abuses in such pet Khrushchev...
...mere fact of the heretics' existence is taken by Congregationalist Kilde as a harbinger of better times to come. "Whatever the weather otherwise, it is springtime in Midwestern Lutheranism. The ice is beginning to break, the long, cold winter of dark dogmatism ... is beginning to wane...
This type of writing, except for one or two decidedly anachronistic excresences, passed quietly away after the wane of Gold Coast Harvard. With the passing of a Harvard "type"--the well-dressed, "well-bred," socially conscious, prep-schooled, glib-talking, worldly, wealthy-son type of undergraduate, humor, both self-directed and outwardly directed, fell off sharply. Even today, a cursory glance at the kind of undergraduate publications at Harvard shows an overwhelming preponderance of the intense and earnest variety...
Astronomers believe that stars are condensations of the dust and gas that drift through space, so they watch dark or bright nebulas with special eagerness. Some of them contain "T Tauri variables":*faint stars that wax and wane irregularly. They light up the dust near them, which makes them look fuzzy, and they are so numerous in certain dusty regions that astronomers have long suspected that they are formed from the dust...
Advance Payment. But Matusow's popularity soon began to wane. At social gatherings he was a braggart and a bore. His only talents were telling involved dirty stories and twisting pipe cleaners into animal-like figures, e.g., he made a little kangaroo and named it Billie-Bunk. When the novelty and profits of his career wore off, Matusow sulked. Moreover, anti-Communist investigators began-although not soon enough-to distrust him. The FBI now says that it dropped him in 1950-yet Matusow was permitted to testify at great length (some 700 pages in the record) in the Government...