Word: chief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nixon bandwagon is to work up impressive speed in the primaries, it must be rolling merrily for the nation's first primary in New Hampshire twelve weeks hence. But while the bandwagon, floats, trapeze artists and bands formed up impatiently. New Hampshire's chief elephant driver, Republican Governor Wesley Powell, sulked in his tent. Reason: Powell had the offer of an honorary chairmanship of the Nixon campaign, and he wanted to be full chairman, with control of plans and funds. Last week, mindful of serious clankings in the one-ring New Hampshire tent of Nelson Rockefeller, the state...
...payola," Russia has its own Aaron Brenner, chief of Moscow's Bus Depot No. 7. Brenner auctioned off the best routes to drivers, charged them 150 rubles when their buses needed new motors, 200 for a new bus, 500 rubles hush money whenever they had an accident. Not satisfied with all this, he falsified his books, and before the government got on to him, bilked the state of some 700,000 rubles in a single year...
...warned the U.N. all along that "incitement among nonwhites would give rise to disorder." And just to make sure that the outside world would not be so misguided in the future, a group of South Africa's richest men, headed by Sir Francis de Guingand, onetime Chief of Staff to Field Marshal Montgomery, and including Harry Oppenheimer, head of the De Beers diamond trust, announced that they were setting up a foundation devoted to promoting "international understanding of South Africa's way of life, achievements and aspirations...
...Cuban revolution turned on one of its own fighting heroes last week. Major Huber Matos, former commander of Camagüey Province, stood accused before a rebel tribunal of what Armed Forces Chief Raul Castro called "the dirty business of anti-Communism." But Matos, who was jailed after he quit the army charging Red infiltration, managed to turn the force of the trial against Fidel Castro's leftist dictatorship...
...Presidential Mission - The Pre-Summit (ABC, 3-3:30 p.m.). A seven-man team headed by ABC News Chief John Daly discusses the Western Big Four meeting...