Word: czar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...became a favorite weapon of radical nationalists; the Irish used terror against the English, and the Armenians and Macedonians against the Turks. Perhaps the most notorious and brazen of the 19th century's terrorists were Russia's Narodnaya Volya, ruthless bands of nihilists who lobbed bombs at the Czar's officials...
...Congress returned, the lobbyists were waiting. In traditional fashion, some camped out in alcoves just off the Senate floor, where they propagandized Senators with an array of computer studies and charts. So many executives of major firms swarmed to Washington to make personal pitches that an aide to Energy Czar James Schlesinger groused, "The sky was black with Learjets...
...wounded since the first of the year in gun battles that terrorized whole communities. Worse, one innocent bystander and two police officers were wounded in gross violation of the ancient code. According to police undercover agents, the warfare erupted because of the waning health and authority of Crime Czar Kazuo Taoka, 64, leader of the 11,000-member Yamaguchi-gumi, the biggest yakuza gang in the country...
...annual fade-in of the fall television season begins, ABC -under the guidance of its programming czar Fred Silverman-is the network to beat in the deadly serious game of prime-time ratings. Our cover story this week, written by Show Business Writer Gerald Clarke and edited by Senior Editor Martha Duffy, traces how TV's perennial No. 3 network overtook and passed its larger rivals, and examines the television industry today...
DIED. Chester J. LaRoche, 84, former advertising czar and chairman (1954-71) of the National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame; in Southampton, N.Y. The quarterback of Yale's championship football team in 1916, LaRoche went on to head Young & Rubicam, the War Advertising Council, served as vice chairman of the Blue Network (later ABC), and founded his own advertising agency...