Word: chiefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germany, campaign posters and blaring sound trucks shattered summer's sluggish quiet. Next week, in their first free general election since Adolf Hitler seized power in 1933, Germans will choose 400 representatives for the Bundestag (lower house) of the Deutsche Bundesrepublik, the long-awaited Federal Republic of Germany. Chief contestants for power: the Christian Democrats and the Socialists. Their platforms had one vital plank in common: sharp criticism of the Western occupation powers...
...Russian pressure on Berlin grew, so did the stature of howling Frank Howley. The Germans found him fair and understanding, the Russians discovered that he could be neither bluffed nor bent. Under General Lucius D. Clay, Howley became one of the chief architects and symbols of victory at Berlin...
...brigadier general) resigned to go home to his advertising business. To succeed Reservist Howley as commander in Berlin, U.S. High Commissioner John J. McCloy got a topflight U.S. professional-Major General Maxwell D. Taylor, wartime commander of the famed 101st Airborne Division, later Superintendent of West Point, more recently Chief of Staff of U.S. forces in Europe. Taylor's most spectacular wartime exploit came in 1943 when-he slipped through the German lines wearing his U.S. uniform, and under the Nazis' noses made his way to Rome for armistice talks with Premier Pietro Badoglio...
When Communist ex-Minister of the Interior Laszlo Rajk went to prison last June as an "imperialist agent" and Titoist-suspect (TIME, June 27), there were rumors that his pal, the police chief, would soon share his fate. Last week Tito's paper Borba (which has shown before that it has a good pipeline into Hungary) reported that Hangman Gabor had killed himself in a Budapest prison...
...been arrested 15 months ago with 18 others for hijacking a $2,000,000 shipment of gold on its way to Bangkok's Don Muang airport. Now he was out on bail while the case dragged on in Siam's slowpoke courts. So was another chief suspect, a husky retired police captain named Pramote Prathuengphong. The two thieves, it seemed, had fallen...