Word: chiefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communist boycott significantly diminish the total vote; 92% of South Korea's eight million registered voters cast ballots. But in one forecast, pre-election dopesters were proved right. Tenacious, septuagenarian Syngman Rhee was confirmed as Korea's No. 1 political leader and its probable new chief of state...
After two years as chief correspondent for CBS in the Middle East, George W. Polk, 34, was ready to go home. But first, he told friends, he wanted a feather for his cap: an interview with Communist Guerrilla Chief Markos Vafiades. It was a dangerous trip, but he was used to danger. Only a fortnight ago Polk had reportedly brushed off threats to kill him for his criticism of the Greek government...
...Future has built itself (at $1 a copy in the U.S., $1.20 abroad) a circulation of 20,000. Patterned after FORTUNE and aimed at the managerial class, Future's slick paper and color layouts make it the best dressed among Britain's dowdy magazines. (But its chief competitor, Contact Books, which gets around the government rules by donning stiff covers and calling itself a book, has better writing, a broader editorial outlook...
Sport takes up a quarter of television's program time, not only because it is good but because most everything else is bad. It is probably the chief reason why television caught on first in the bars & grills. (Quipped Fred Allen: "There are millions of people in New York who don't even know what television is. They are not old enough to go into saloons...
Hughes's first step was to put a ban on hirings & firings for 60 days. That meant that Doré Schary, RKO's crack production chief, who had not met Hughes until last week, would remain in charge, at least for the present...