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Signs of trouble in the Kremlin began mounting after Dec. 15, when Brezhnev made a secret speech to the Central Committee about the lagging Soviet economy. Since his predecessor, Nikita Khrushchev, was ousted principally because of poor economic performance, Brezhnev took care to blame economic planners and managers for the failures. To many Sovietologists, the postponement of the next Communist Party Congress from this month to an indeterminate date late in 1970 or even 1971 suggested high-level disagreements. Said Yale's Wolfgang Leonhard: "It means either that the leaders can't agree on policies or that there...
...brilliant sense of pace and timing, and it displayed itself in this work. He skillfully constructed a great performance by avoiding most of the characteristic failings of his contemporaries. He never forced his pace, the way Leinsdorf did. He made the orchestra forget the influence of his predecessor, and got it to produce a clarity of tone, especially in the strings, which Bernstein might well have envied. The concert definitely belonged to Rudolf and the listener went away feeling that the aging conductor had made the BSO perform beyond its normal capabilities...
...Union (TIME, March 2). Though blacks will make up less than one-sixth of the potential membership of the superchurch, black delegates at COCU's annual meeting last month won a guarantee that each presiding bishop of the new church must have a "different racial background" from his predecessor-meaning that virtually every other one will be black...
...Congressman from California in 1958, when he was vice president of his family's farm-equipment company in Chico. A World War II draftee-he ended up as technician fourth grade -Tarr knows the draft system from the bottom up, without having been a professional soldier like his predecessor Lieut. General Lewis Hershey. After the war, Tarr received an A.B. from Stanford University and a master's degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. He returned to Stanford for his Ph.D.; his doctoral thesis: Unification of America's Armed Forces: A Century and a Half...
...DUNE MESSIAH, which continues the story of Paul Atreides begun in Dune, will mean nothing to those who have not read its predecessor...