Word: technocrat
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Dates: during 1962-1962
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ALEKSEI KOSYGIN, 58, was only 13 when the Bolsheviks seized power, and is one of the best examples of the new breed of Soviet technocrat who relies less on Communist dogma than on practical results. A wartime premier of the Russian Soviet Republic, Kosygin entered the inner Kremlin circle under Stalin, lost the dictator's favor in 1948 and remained relatively unimportant until 1959, when Khrushchev turned Kosygin's experience as an economic planner to use as the head of the State Planning Commission. During a tour of France two years ago, Khrushchev openly referred to his traveling...
...Reuter went to work there, and rose from compressor salesman to head engineer. For the past two decades, he and Reuter have worked together 14 hours a day, automating Demag's production lines, planning new products, and maneuvering salesmen around the globe to outbid competitors. A slow-spoken technocrat, Miller is alleged by his plaintive subordinates to start his work day "shortly after midnight...