Word: chief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tarnished Copper. In Copenhagen, Inspector Povl Brondt, 51, Denmark's traffic-police chief, lost his right to drive for one year and got a 14-day jail sentence for drunken driving...
Beard the Critics. More and more as the press fog cleared, Nixon followed up his groups of critics, met them in public and private debates point by point. He argued with Laborite Chief Hugh Gaitskell and supporters against Labor's hopes for "disengagement" of allied military force in Europe, won Laborites' praise as levelheaded and responsible. He took a traditional ribbing from Oxford University students, who lost no time in pointing up the implied challenge to Nixon in the election victory of New York's Nelson Rockefeller, is IT ROCKY AT THE TOP? asked one placard...
...keeping open sea lanes of transportation and communication, applying air power from offshore carriers. In keeping with its arguments, the Navy is pushing, despite the budget hold-down, for a $375 million dreamboat: a second atomic-powered carrier to join the Enterprise, now abuilding. So taken is Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh ("31-Knot") Burke with the atomic carrier's virtues-speed, range and freedom from refueling problems, except for aircraft fuel-that, to get another one, he is even willing to see a slowdown in procurement of atomic-missile subs...
...Egan served in both houses of the territorial legislature, once offered to solve Alaska's woman shortage by proposing a $50-a-year tax on unmarried females. He is an airplane pilot, has worked as a cannery laborer and a truck driver, made his highest marks as president, chief parliamentarian and major cohesive agent of the 75-day Territorial Constitutional Convention in 1955-56, won the powerful governorship, with its broad powers of appointment, from Territorial Senator John Butrovich by nearly 10,000 votes...
Aside from his intellectual and rhetorical powers, Jimmy's chief talents are for making his wife happy at night and miserable during the day. These facts, with the additional fact that Jimmy is not averse to making similar contributions to the nocturnal happiness of other women, comprise Mr. Osborne's simple, sufficient plot. The air in the Porters' dingy attic is thick with a one-way stream of recriminations; Jimmy has no need to beat his wife when he can browbeat her so effectively. At one point she leaves him; eventually she comes back, and the curtain falls...