Word: careers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Official Career. Sharing the legendary Armenian gift for trading, Mikoyan became Stalin's chief trade commissar at 30, overseeing not only Soviet foreign trade but also domestic distribution of goods. After World War II, he set up the Soviet economic apparatus for milking the captive nations of Eastern Europe. During the shifting struggle for power and survival after Stalin's death. Mikoyan shrewdly sided with Nikita Khrushchev when the other schemers from the old Stalin gang joined forces against the upstart. When Khrushchev won out, the wily Armenian emerged as No. 2 man, with the title of Deputy...
...picking a Cabinet together, De Gaulle and Debre are expected to keep much of De Gaulle's present team in office: Antoine Pinay as Finance Minister, capable Career Diplomat Maurice Couve de Murville as Foreign Minister, and safe Civil Servant Emile Pelletier as Interior Minister. One likely departure is Minister of State Guy Mollet, whose Socialist Party dislikes De Gaulle's new austerity budget. Mollet talks of the need to create a loyal opposition, so that resentment particularly among the workers, can be expressed through others than the Communists...
Director Wallmann started out as a ballet dancer, had to abandon her career when she fell through a trap door on the Vienna opera stage and broke her hip. She turned to choreography, gradually took on opera-directing chores, is now one of the most sought-after directors in Europe. She is an ardent admirer but not a disciple of Felsenstein, believes that his coldly analytical visions have no place in Milan's mistily sentimental house. Between them, Directors Felsenstein and Wallmann have done much to restore Puccini's fire-and-ice masterpiece to the fame it deserves...
...Audrey to a false, flashy friend, the sort of chap who is capable not only of swindling pals out of money but of cheating Truth itself -he sort of fiddles with a scientific experiment to make it come out the way he wanted. Disappointed in love and in his career, Miles loses faith; crystals are not enough...
...Fight? Taciturn and monosyllabic off the ice, the sinewy (5 ft. 10 in., 196 lbs.) Rocket turns into a ferociously truculent competitor once he takes stick in hand. In his long career, he has been fined a total of $2,500, an all-time record. In one celebrated incident three years ago, Richard attacked an official who was interfering with his assault on a Boston player. League President Clarence Campbell suspended him, thus banishing him from the Stanley Cup playoffs. Montreal fans retaliated by attacking Campbell when he showed up to watch the next game, then surged out into downtown...