University Daily Kansan Tuesday, April 24, 1963
Koniev Is Tough Red Strategist, Shrewd Planner
By United Press International
Marshal Ivan S. Koniev, barrel-chested former lumberjack who became one of Russia's master military strategists, had been Soviet commander in East Germany for only three days when the Communists threw up their wall in Berlin last August 13.
"Decide what the enemy expects of you, then do the opposite."
Koniev, a World War II hero nicknamed "the tank" once gave this nutshell summary of his strategic thinking:
This maxim led the 64-year-old marshal to high posts in the Soviet Union and caused him to be used as a hatchet man by Kremlin leaders—notably in the purge of Marshal Georgi Zhukov as defense minister in 1957.
Ironically, Zhukov himself was quoted as saying of Koniev in World War II; "When Koniev can play his own game no Germans can get the better of him."
Koniev, a strikingly tough-looking man with dead pan face and close-cropped hair is a stocky 5 feet 6 inches tall. He was born of peasant stock in Kirov province. He was working as a lumberjack when the Czarists drafted him into their army in World War I.
But Koniev quickly switched to the Bolshevik side when the revolution broke out and wasted no time in joining the Communist party in 1918. He also joined the Soviet army the same year.
He won his first renown as a battlefield commander during the Russo-Finnish war in 1939-40. As commander on the Ukrainian front in 1942, he began the steady drive that pushed the Nazis' troops out of Russia. In 1944 he drove into Romania. The next year he captured Prague, and linked up his forces with the U.S. Army on the Elbe river in Germany.
In 1955, Koniev was named commander of the eight-nation Communist Warsaw Pact armed forces and served until July, 1960 when the Soviets announced, he was relieved at his own request. He also served as a deputy defense minister.
Koniev was head of the military tribunal that sentenced Lavrenti P. Beria to death. Some reports say he played a leading role in the events that led to Beria's arrest and downfall.
With the emergence of Nikita S. Khrushchev as premier and party chief, Koniev, said to be politically ambitious, hitched himself firmly to the Khrushchev bandwagon.
The Communist Party used him as a counterweight against the tremendous popularity of his old wartime colleague, Zhukov, and he became the leading spokesman for those who brought about Zhukov's disgrace.
BEHIND THE SCENES OF THE "PLAYBOY" EMPIRE
Hugh Hefner launched Playboy magazine on $10,000—and a nude photo of Marilyn Monroe. Today he’s a millionaire. In this week's Post, you'll learn how Hefner lives up to his Playboy image. Why he keeps close tabs on the private lives of his buxom "bunnies." And which Hollywood stars got their start as "Playmates."
The Saturday Evening
19 Kappas Take Ride—All in One Car
By Dennis Bowers
Nineteen pledges of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority walked out the door in a study hall walkout last night, piled into a 1956 Ford convertible and rambled off up the street.
The girls were quick to agree to a UDK reporter's request for a chance to take a picture and he scrambled onto the trunk of the car to become the twentieth passenger, holding onto two girls arms to hold on. The girls began chanting sorority songs, including one intended for the Pi Beta Phi women.
In front of the library, they tried to sneak by a campus police jeep. But as the car neared Flint Hall, the jeep pulled out and began silently following them.
The Kappa driving became excited . . . it wasn't her car. Looking
back, the girls saw the patrol jeep with red light blaring on top. They stopped. Hearts fell.
Officials to Speak On City Managers
The views of the mayor and the city council concerning the office of city manager will be discussed at the fifteenth City Managers School now being held in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union.
Elder Gunter, Des Moines, Iowa city manager, will speak at 7 p.m. tomorrow on "Ethics and Future of City Managership."
John Ise, professor emeritus of economics, will speak on "Why Do You Want Cities to Grow?" at noon Thursday.
The reporter hopped off to see if he could explain to the officer. The officer nodded and confronted the driver. Some girls giggled. Then by mass consent before the amazed officer, the girls got out and walked up to Flint so the reporter could take their picture in their original packed style.
The three shots taken with the polaroid were too dark to be reproduced.
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