Word: chief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after Castro's invasion, TIME reported that "Batista's troops sent to kill the rebels lacked the heart or the ability to do so." In November 1957 a TIME correspondent interviewed Dictator Batista in Havana, met the next day in Santiago with Castro's hunted underground chief. On a later swing he took off to the hills to see Castro, watched an air-ground battle from behind rebel lines. TIME early reported that Castro was acting "like a king," and might "become the brilliant liberator his young followers see or a man on horseback.'' Last...
...Pius XII and the election of Pope John XXIII. Last week Presiding Bishop Arthur Carl Lichtenberger was formally installed in his new post, and news could catch up with him in greater detail. In this issue TIME introduces the grocer's son from Oshkosh, Wis. who is now chief spokesman for 3,274,867 Episcopalians in the U.S. and abroad. Said he: "If this were still an aristocratic church, it would never have elected me." The "P.B." also told reporters that he hoped the Red Sox (he lived near Boston for a time) would win the American League pennant...
...Congress. "The improvement in business activity which began in the second quarter of last year will be extended in the months ahead." Happily ticking off the indicators of a recession-recovered economy, he felt free to concentrate on the foe-inflation-which he has consistently named as the chief threat to long-term U.S. economic health...
...offered the President a chance to carry the crucial battle into enemy territory. Rather than merely defend against a spate of pump-priming schemes, he could attack the policies that pump inflation into the economy: "The chief way for Government to discharge its responsibility in helping to achieve economic growth with price stability is through the prudent conduct of its own financial affairs...
Finally, the President was reminded of a remark he had made in 1948 when, as the Army's outgoing chief of staff, he had offered his personal prescription for retirement : "Put a chair on the porch. Sit in it for six months, and then begin to rock slowly." Had his ideas changed since then? Said the President of the U.S., looking like almost anything but a candidate for a rocking chair: "I don't know how long this type of retirement would last, but at least I want to sit in that chair until I really want...