Word: chairman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...showed that the U.S.S.R. is still ahead of the U.S. in the critical field of space. The U.S.S.R. fired two moon rockets into space, missed once, hit once; the U.S. fired five moon rockets, missed five times. The Soviet success, as such, gave the Soviet Union's Chairman Khrushchev, on the eve of his U.S. visit, perhaps the greatest prestige blast-off of all time...
...Chairman of the Committee of Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries Georgy Zhukov, 51, is a dandified Ukrainian who worked as Pravda foreign correspondent in France and Geneva after World War II; his influence has risen since 1957 by dint of his handling of the people-to-people exchange program; he was the top Soviet official with the Nixon party during much of the Vice President's trip. A harder-line Communist pressagent is Leonid llyichev, fiftyish, head of the agitprop organization set up to indoctrinate worldwide Communist parties, who as Soviet Foreign Office press briefing officer from...
...convention. His bold plan put him into the center of the year's toughest scrap, bloodied him up a bit. His troubles started when the Senate toughened his original Kennedy Bill, got grim when the President pushed the far tougher Landrum-Griffin bill through the House. As chairman of the Senate-House conference to resolve the differences between the two measures, he fought a union-side rearguard action against adoption of all Landrum-Griffin's tougher provisions, won enough concessions to avoid an all-out attack by angered labor leaders. Last week the powerful building trades (which, thanks...
...Chairman Willi Richter, 64, keynoted: "Owning a radio or TV set or refrigerator or washing machine is today no longer a luxury. It merely corresponds to the level of our civilization." His federation, which has seen its membership fall from 40% of Germany's labor force to about 33% in the last decade, this year was making an easygoing pitch for shorter working hours. But when pink-cheeked Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard appeared at the opening session and voiced a fervent appeal for longer, not shorter, hours, the delegates dutifully applauded and dropped the idea of a resolution...
Late one convention morning, an irate delegate finally jumped up, shouted that the convention was an issue-dodging fake. The convention heard him out. Then the chairman announced: "We have now earned our lunch. Guten Appetit" And with that, everyone trooped off to a meal of mushroom soup, rolled beef bürgerlich and grape tart with whipped cream...