Word: chief
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...great human stories of Washington.'' mused the New York Times's Chief Washington Correspondent James Reston last week, "are beyond the scope of daily journalism." He was rejecting on the "rough time" that daily journalism had in trying to explain why the Senate refused to confirm Lewis Strauss as Secretary of Commerce. It was the onrush of the great human story in the Strauss affair that TIME reported in its June 15 cover story on Strauss, a story that prepared readers for the thorny issues and the thornier human personalities involved. With weekly journalism's advantages...
...Boat & Plane. Ankudinov has done his best to make travel to Russia easy. Intourist has a permanent representative in the U.S., books tourists through a dozen major U.S. travel agencies and 50 associated agencies. Chief among them: American Express, which now has its own office in Moscow, and Manhattan's Cosmos Travel Bureau. Six Western European airlines (SAS, Finnair, Air France, KLM, Sabena and British European Airways) fly into Russia, occasional boat cruises ply the Black Sea, and tourists can even enter Russia in their own autos...
Harold Thomas has spent most of his adult life following Rotary's twin ideals. Says he: "I think Rotary day and night." Born in a tent in the wilds of frontier New Zealand (his middle name honors the Maori chief whose wife delivered him), he fought in France in World War I, went back to Auckland to become manager of a tiny furniture company. He soon took over, expanded the company until it now spreads through New Zealand. He joined Rotary in 1923, only two years after the club got to New Zealand. As the "NZers" flocked into Rotary...
Died. Tshekedi Khama, 53, tough, durable chief (1926-50) of the Bamangwato tribe in the British Protectorate of Bechuanaland, who imposed education, modern sanitation and agriculture on his impassive, faction-torn tribe, fought off encroachments of the adjoining, racist Union of South Africa; of a liver ailment; in London. Impetuous Tshekedi was exiled twice: once (1933) for ordering a white man flogged who had abused a native woman (when the field gun of a punitive force sent to depose him bogged down in the mud, Tshekedi sent a team of oxen to haul it out); later (1950) for stormily objecting...
Died. James J. Maloney, 63, longtime (1931-51) U.S. Secret Service agent, and briefly chief (1947-48), who was kicked upstairs to U.S. Treasury law enforcement coordinator after prematurely preparing a Secret Service guard for unsuccessful Presidential Candidate Thomas E. Dewey on election eve in 1948; of bronchial pneumonia; in St. Petersburg...