Word: autocratic
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...reasons the tourney has been such a good drawing card in past years is the preeminence of the Yale Golf Course, which was laid out by Charles Blair MacDonald, the autocrat of American golf when the game was just gaining hold in this country...
Adroit, stylish, nimble, this is a first-rate revival of a classic. Here is Wilde, the autocrat of the dining table, drop ping epigrams like pearls before wine...
...troubles began five years ago when Mobutu, an autocrat who always carries a traditional tribal chieftain's stick decorated with carved figures of birds and snakes, decreed an ambitious industrialization program. Instead of investing in agriculture-which would have increased food supplies and given many more Zaïrians jobs-Mobutu put $1 billion, much of it borrowed, into projects aimed at a vast expansion of copper exports. He gambled that increasing demand would keep copper prices rising-and he lost. During the world recession, copper prices plunged by 62%, and Zaïre's copper revenues shrank...
...Charming Autocrat. The shake-up at Black Rock, as the CBS glass-and-granite monolith on Sixth Avenue is known, caught the broadcast industry by surprise-including senior executives at CBS. "This comes as a complete bolt out of the blue," said a corporate spokesman, struggling to explain the changes. What everyone wanted to know was: Why? Why had Taylor been fired after leading CBS to ever greater financial success and presumably having been selected by Paley to succeed him? Why had Backe, who had no experience in broadcasting-the heart of CBS's operations-been chosen...
...last question was easiest to answer, and indeed holds the key to the others. Paley's resignation as C.E.O. means virtually nothing. Renowned as perhaps the greatest of broadcasting's pioneers-and as an autocrat of considerable taste and charm-he has run the company ever since 1928, when he bought control of the 16 radio stations that were to become the Columbia Broadcasting System. CBS now has some 213 television and 255 radio affiliates, plus divisions producing records, musical instruments, and books and magazines. Since he was the man who created this still burgeoning enterprise, Paley apparently...