Word: chieftains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ayub not to trust any agreement signed by Nehru, because he "knows how to get out of commitments far more binding and rigid." Who was the opposition chieftain? None other than Ayub's own younger brother, Sardar Bahadur Khan...
Looking greyer and more gravelly than ever, Frank Costello, 71, learned that the U.S. has every intention of giving him the boot-right back to his native Cosenza on Italy's instep. The gangland chieftain was stripped of his citizenship in 1959 after a U.S. district judge ruled that the onetime rumrunner and kewpie-doll salesman had been naturalized fraudulently in 1925. Now the U.S. Court of Appeals in Manhattan has turned down his attempt to upset a deportation order. Rasped Costello: "Italy is O.K. to visit but not to live in too long...
...APRA Chieftain Haya de la Torre stared in disbelief at the TV screen. The election was not going as well as expected, but APRA's figures did not bear out Belaunde's snap victory claim. "Wait till the solid north comes in," Haya muttered. "Then we'll see." He went to a phone. A few minutes later, he came back, pointed at the TV set and said...
...paneled courtroom. On the dais sat a nine-man tribunal consisting of three French generals, three magistrates, two civilians and an admiral. In the dock last week appeared bullnecked, tough Edmond Jouhaud. 57. a former general who served as air force chief of staff, most recently No. 2 chieftain of the Secret Army Organization in Algeria, where last month he was ignominiously arrested without a fight...
...with his wife (his family of five is now grown up) in a cottage on the coast of Wales near the village his longtime friend Dylan Thomas immortalized in Under Milkwood. When not writing, he has kept busy enough, bustling around the world. He was a friend of Moroccan Chieftain El Glaui, has hobnobbed with Balkan rebels, shipped on freighters, and he has been described as a "sea pirate come to land." In 1924, he wrote what is called Britain's first radio drama. Danger, for which he still gets royalties; he served a wartime stint with the British...