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...Soviet hierarchy's highest plane of power. Widely acknowledged as the kingmaker to the Communist party's inner circle, Suslov was instrumental in the ascendency of Chairman Nikita Khruschev to power in 1958, and again for his downfall in 1964. The many machinations of power politics never seemed to daunt the Soviet minister, whose ferocity found outlet for endeavor in uncounted tasks during the more than 40 years he serve the Kremlin...
Record-setting cold temperatures of 9 degrees below zero and swirling winds did not daunt Cincinnati quarterback Ken Anderson. who threw two touchdowns in leading the Bengals to a 27-7 victory over the San Diego Chargers in Riverfront Stadium...
...prospect of bloody skirmishes with the highly nationalistic and traditionally anti-Russian Poles must also daunt Moscow. Although outmanned by Soviet forces on its border and hindered by outdated arms and equipment, the 210,000-man Polish army might put up some resistance. Says a Western diplomat in Warsaw: "I don't look for divisions to fight. But at the battalion and company level, they would." Last week Soviet officers in civilian clothes were reported to have moved into the Polish Defense Ministry; presumably their mission was to limit the potential for mutiny if intervention is called...
Forbidding gray skies, cutting winds and 50-degree temperatures did little to daunt the enthusiasm of the scantily-clad women who turned out in record numbers to run in the fourth Bonne Bell race...
...skiers descending on Colorado, primarily because of the state's liberal corporate disclosure requirements. New energy companies, which are sprouting up in the gas-and oil-rich region like spring wild flowers, are attempting to turn oil leases into sizable fortunes. Their offering circulars detail risks that would daunt the faint of heart. Speculation also fits the local mood. Ever since gold-rush days, Colorado has been flush with get-rich-quick gambits, a mania seen in the uranium boom of the mid-1950s...