Word: chieftains
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Both Liberals and Tories were relieved. The Munsinger case had simply become too hot to handle. The Tories' fire-breathing chieftain John Diefenbaker sounded strangely subdued in Parliament when he damned Liberal Justice Minister Lucien Cardin, who started the fuss in the first place, for "smear, scuttlebutt, slander and smut." Diefenbaker did not even try for a vote of confidence. His style was undoubtedly cramped by the fact that his former Transport Minister, George Hees, a gregarious Torontonian who at first indignantly disclaimed any acquaintance with the blonde, now conceded that he might have lunched with her at Ottawa...
...African leaders seem safe, at least for the time being. Foremost among them is Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta, 73, former Mau Mau chieftain who is now revered throughout the land as Mzee...
Greeks burned their dead heroes on great funeral pyres; Vikings launched their mourned leaders seaward in great ships. What funeral rites should assist a leather-jacketed motorcycle chieftain of California's hell-raising Hell's Angels to his grave? The problem arose last week after James T. Miles, 30, died in a head-on collision between his motor cycle and a truck in Oakland, Calif...
That was old Spitzbart's way of referring to his late brilliant planningcommission chieftain, Dr. Erich Apel, 48. Apel shot himself in his office three weeks ago, the same day that East Germany signed a $15 billion five-year trade pact with the Soviet Union -over Apel's bitter protests...
...overwhelming win in part was a tribute to the faulty judgment of his prime opponent, seasoned Republican Party Chieftain Ismet Inönü, 81. Well aware that his own do-little administration had done nothing to enhance him with the voters, Inönü hoped to appeal to a radical strain in Turkish public opinion with a new and unaccustomed stance as a "left-of-center" friend of Russia. Turks aren't very radical. They vastly preferred Demirel's calls for renewed cordiality toward the West, new incentives for private enter prise and a promise...