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...drama of destalinization moved into the theater last week. A new Moscow play pitted a Stalin-trained secret police heavy ("Give me this Leontyev, and in two weeks he will crack like a nut") against a clean-cut hero cop who ringingly denounces the Stalinists: "They are not tormented by their conscience. They never...
...jittery. Suety Georgy Malenkov nervously eyed dour old Vyacheslav Molotov, his longtime rival for Stalin's favor and now his partner, along with Lavrenty Beria, in the triumvirate chosen to run Russia. Even bouncy Nikita Khrushchev was unwontedly subdued. Only prim, beady-eyed Beria, Russia's top cop, seemed unconcerned. Of all the men in the conference room and an adjoining office, only Beria was ignorant of the meeting's real purpose...
...functions to a Committee on State Security (KGB), which is supposed to be accountable to the party as a whole. In keeping with its friendly new face, the Kremlin last week appointed as its new KGB boss a model of the rising young Soviet-style executive. The new top cop: Vladimir Semichastny, 37, who has been the leader of the Young Communist League, got his first taste of glory in 1958 when he declared that to compare Boris Pasternak to a pig "is unfair to the pigs." It is not known how well he handles a machine...
...Francisco (where else?), the San Franciso Chronicle ran an amusing story under the headline "Miller Book Isn't Smut, Cop Says." Some years ago, Captain William Hanrahan was severely criticized for his hasty action in impounding some copies of poet Alan Ginzberg's beat epic, "Howl." Now, according to the story, Hanrahan is a sadder and a wiser cop. After his unhappy experience with "Howl," he is cautious, and only judges a book like Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer in "its total context...
Said Khrushchev's top cop, Aleksandr Shelepin, piously: "You sometimes wonder how those people can sleep peacefully. They must be plagued by nightmares. They must hear the sobs and curses of mothers, wives and children of comrades who perished innocent...