Word: chief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Compared to the other new embassies in the diplomatic enclave of New Delhi set up by Nehru, it is. About the only people who ever had any serious objections to it were its chief occupants, Ambassador and Mrs. Ellsworth Bunker. Bunker, a man of conservative tastes, complained about the lacy grille that covered the great expanse of glass, plaintively said. "I want to see the blue sky." Mrs. Bunker, who not long ago began promoting long-handled brooms for Indian sweepers-and thus closely resembled the character in The Ugly American called "the woman who unbent the backs...
...seized the Havana airport. To the Dominican Republic, besides Batista, went Andrés Rivero Aguero, Batista's puppet President-elect, who was supposed to take office Feb. 24. (Another Ciudad Trujillo resident: Argentina's exiled Dictator Juan Perón.) The Jacksonville club included national Police Chief Pilar Garcia, worst of the terrorists, and Army Chief of Staff Francisco Tabernilla, whose unseemly wealth from import privileges led Cubans to dub Scotch whisky "Old Tabernilla." U.S. Gambler Meyer Lansky, who ran the casinos in several big resort hotels in a deal with Batista, caught a chartered plane...
Fidel Castro Ruz, 32, the rebel chief, is a nonpracticing lawyer who began fighting Batista in 1953 by leading a frontal attack on Moncada barracks in Santiago. He named his 26th of July movement for the day the attack failed, went into Mexican exile, returned to invade Oriente province with 81 men aboard the yacht Gramma on Dec. 2, 1956. Castro likes to sit about a campfire and talk military science, citing Rommel and Napoleon, and discussing romantic proposals for Cuba, e.g., a school-city for 20,000 children. In 1953 he called for nationalization of U.S.-owned public utilities...
...from pipes and cigars is as potent a cancer-causing agent to mice as that from cigarettes. The investigators were Dr. Ernest L. Wynder of Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute and Adele B. Croninger of St. Louis' Washington University. As co-author they loyally listed their former chief, the late great Surgeon Evarts A. Graham, onetime chain smoker who died of inoperable lung cancer (TIME, March...
...experts reckoned without a slim, crew-cut young man named Alex Olmedo. Nicknamed "The Chief." for his resemblance to an Inca prince, Olmedo, 22, is a citizen of Peru. He qualified for the team because he had lived in the U.S. longer than the required three years, and Peru had no team of its own. At California's tennis-playing Modesto Junior College and later at the University of Southern California, where he had been sent to have his game sharpened under the watchful eyes of Kramer and other pros. Olmedo had shown promise, but little of the determination...