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This collegial leadership is dominated by a troika made up of Premier Kosygin, Party General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, 60, and President Nikolai Podgorny, 64, the chief of state. A fourth man also regularly joins the decision-making executive committee of the eleven-man Politburo: Party Ideologist Mikhail Suslov, 65, whose position seems to have stayed almost the same through several changes in leadership. Of the top four, none was old enough to have had a major role in the revolution, and all but Suslov were trained as technocrats: Kosygin was a textile engineer and factory manager, Brezhnev a surveyor...
Marching before the Ways and Means Committee with a squadron of aides and a stupefaction of statistics were the President's fiscal troika: Henry Fowler, Budget Director Charles L. Schultze and Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Gardner Ackley. At the outset, Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills, whose opposition spells finis for any tax package on the Hill, noted ominously: "I regret exceedingly the circumstances that bring you here...
...steps down after almost eight years as president, Gott takes on U.S. Steel's highest administrative post, bearing responsibility for carrying out Blough's policy decisions. Organization charts aside, decision making at the $4.41-billion-a-year steel giant has actually been pretty much of a troika operation, with policy matters largely entrusted to Blough, Worthington and Robert C. Tyson, 61, powerful chairman of the company's finance committee. Gott's elevation should do little to change that arrangement; like his predecessor, he will remain in Pittsburgh, confer with the New York-based Blough and Tyson...
Eckstein served from 1964 to 1966 on the Council of Economic Advisors, the troika that yearly prepares a massive report on the state of the economy for the President. He was appointed a month ago to the National Advisory Council on Economic Opportunity which is studying the success of the poverty program for President Johnson...
...itself, the complex measuring unit by which the University calculates how much work a teaching fellow is doing, all the assembly could decide was set up another committee to study the question. The meeting also gave the organization a name--the Federation of Teaching Fellows--and a temporary executive troika...