Foreign News: KREMLIN COMER-

NAMED last week as First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union (a rank shared only with the seemingly indestructible agile Armenian, Anastas Mikoyan): Frol Romanovich Kozlov, a man all but unknown even to foreign specialists in Soviet affairs.

Early Life. Born Aug. 17, 1908, in the village of Loshchinino, southeast of Moscow, and like a good Communist leader, described as the son of peasants. Started work in a textile plant at 15, joined the Young Communist League and, at 18 in 1926, the Communist Party itself. The party sent him to a workers' college and then to Leningrad Polytech.

Career Beginnings. Sent to...