THE UKRAINIAN CANDIDATES THE KHRUSHCHEV SUCCESSION SWEEPSTAKES BEGAN ALL OVER AGAIN LAST 
WEEK WHEN THE COMMUNIST PARTY CENTRAL COMMITTEE NAMED TWO NEW SECRETARIES 
. OUT IN FRONT IS SOVIET PRESIDENT LEONID BREZHNEV, 56, A 
SHREWD, SWARTHY METALLURGICAL ENGINEER WHOM KHRUSHCHEV PLUCKED FROM AN OBSCURE JOB 
IN THE UKRAINE LITTLE MORE THAN A DECADE AGO . BREZHNEV 
WILL NOW PROBABLY GIVE UP THE MERELY CEREMONIAL FUNCTIONS OF THE 
SOVIET PRESIDENCY, TAKE OVER AS TASKMASTER OF HEAVY INDUSTRY AND ARMAMENTS 
. THE SECOND NEW SECRETARY IS UKRAINIAN PARTY BOSS NIKOLAI PODGORNY, 
60, WHO IS EXPECTED TO TAKE OVER THE SUPERVISION OF PARTY 
CADRES . BOTH MEN WERE ALREADY MEMBERS OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE'S 
INNER SANCTUM, THE PRESIDIUM . NOW, AS SECRETARIES OF THE COMMITTEE 
AS WELL, THEY MOVE INTO THE MOST ELITE ECHELON OF THE 
SOVIET HIERARCHY . ONLY FOUR OTHER RED LEADERS HOLD SUCH A 
DOUBLE POSITION, AND NONE IS KHRUSHCHEV'S LIKELY SUCCESSOR . THE FOUR 
: FROL KOZLOV, 54, WHO SUFFERED A SEVERE STROKE IN APRIL 
; ELDERLY OTTO KUUSINEN, 81 ; SENIOR THEORETICIAN MIKHAIL SUSLOV, 60, 
COMPROMISED BY A STALINIST PAST; AND KHRUSHCHEV HIMSELF . 