The week also brought the biggest Soviet command shuffle since Khrushchev threw Molotov and Malenkov out of the top leadership three years ago. Handsome, wavy-haired Frol Kozlov, 51, whose flying trip to Washington paved the way for Khrushchev's visit to the U.S. last year, gave up his post as First Deputy Premier to become one of Khrushchev's top party aides. Early last year Khrushchev told Averell Harriman in Moscow that he regarded Kozlov as his successor. But Aleksei Kosygin, 56, named First Deputy Premier last week in Kozlov's place, has since won equal...
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