RUSSIA NEW SUCCESSOR FOR K . ? AT FOUR BIG MOSCOW SHINDIGS 
IN RECENT WEEKS, GREYING, SQUARE-JAWED FROL KOZLOV, 54, HAS BEEN CONSPICUOUSLY 
ABSENT . COULD KOZLOV, NO . 2 MAN IN THE PARTY 
AND NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV'S HEIR-DESIGNATE, BE IN TROUBLE ? SOME KREMLINOLOGISTS THOUGHT 
SO THEIR SPECULATION FINALLY PROMPTED A 30-WORD ANNOUNCEMENT ON PAGE 2 
OF PRAVDA LAST WEEK . " IN CONNECTION WITH INQUIRIES RECEIVED, 
" SAID PRAVDA, THE PARTY'S CENTRAL COMMITTEE " ANNOUNCES THAT COMRADE 
F . R . KOZLOV COULD NOT TAKE PART IN THE 
MAY 1 FESTIVITIES BECAUSE OF ILLNESS . " THE WORD IN 
MOSCOW WAS THAT KOZLOV, WHO MISSED THE 1961 MAY DAY PARADE 
BECAUSE OF HEART TROUBLE, HAD SUFFERED A SECOND ATTACK . 