Word: chief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...matching the rebel army in size and importance. Its headquarters is the most tightly guarded building in Havana. As boss of INRA's industrialization division, Guevara has a free hand for revamping Cuba; last week he seized the $14 million Havana Riviera Hotel. His appointment as National Bank chief touched off a run on savings banks-which Guevara thought "logical," considering his "fame of being extremely radical...
...people around and under the Fidel-Raúl-Che triumvirate give anti-Communists no cause for comfort. Antonio Núñez Jiménez, chief of INRA's land redistribution program, once led the campaign for a Communist candidate for Congress, later wrote a Marxist Geography of Cuba that is now a standard textbook in Cuban schools. Another force is Celia Sánchez,* Castro's onetime Girl Friday in the hills, who offers a patient ear and a radicalism as woolly as Castro's own. Her apartment, where she keeps a freshly laundered shirt...
Delightful at its best and generally fun, Fiorello! does have its weaknesses: a few flop songs and scenes, and a less lively second act. The show's chief liability is that bane of musicals, love, which-requited or unrequited-can seem banal. Even so, the show's chief asset. Director Abbott's testing everywhere for pace and pep, helps to shorten the doldrums. And for the evening as a whole, the reaction to the Abbott test is decidedly positive...
Better Football. Crisscrossing the route of the spacemen, an equally eminent group of nine Russian atomic scientists was also touring the U.S. Led by Professor Vasily S. Emelyanov, chief of the Soviet Administration for Peaceful Utilization of Atomic Energy, they visited laboratories from California to Long Island, uranium mines, nuclear-power reactors and the nuclear merchant ship Savannah, now under construction at Camden, N.J. The prime matter on Emelyanov's mind seemed to be peaceful atomic cooperation between Russia and the U.S. The two nations are now engaged, he said, in a "football game" of senseless competition, but they...
Died. John Randolph Neal, 83, who precipitated the Dayton, Tenn. "monkey trial" in 1925 by urging Teacher John Scopes to defy state law and teach Darwin's evolution, served as Scopes's chief counsel (though overshadowed by the showmanship of his famed colleague Clarence Darrow), lost the case (Scopes was fined $100) but won the war; in Rockwood, Tenn...