Word: czar
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Died. Mark Vishniak, 93, author and TIME'S longtime Sovietologist (1946-58); in Manhattan. A law professor hi Moscow, Vishniak was five times arrested by Czar Nicholas II as an ardent Socialist Revolutionary. In 1917 he helped draw up the electoral laws for the provisional government headed by Alexander Kerensky and, as Vishniak later wrote, served in "the only freely elected Parliament in the history of Russia," which lasted just twelve hours before it was dissolved by Lenin. Escaping from the Bolsheviks, Vishniak fled to Paris and, after the beginning of World...
Died. Lord Thomson of Fleet, 82, international press czar; a month after suffering a stroke; in London. A debt-plagued salesman in rural Ontario during the Depression, Roy Herbert Thomson floated a loan to set up a small radio station, then acquired a struggling newspaper, the Timmins (Ont.) Press. From this slender base he built one of the world's largest press and broadcasting empires: more than 140 newspapers and dozens of magazines, TV and radio stations, mostly in Canada, the U.S. and Britain. In London, which became his base of operations in the 1950s, he picked...
...Louisiana law firm became suspicious when he claimed in an interview to be the great grandnephew of Czar Nicholas of Russia. He also said he was an avid skin diver, but bared his ignorance about the sport when one of the law firm's partners, a scuba enthusiast, asked him about...
...newsroom czar, Rosenthal oversees 300 metropolitan reporters, 35 Washington correspondents, 20 national, 32 foreign and 400 part-time contributors around the country...
...federal government, a university's affirmative action program must include goals and timetables to remedy "deficiencies" in areas of "underutilization" of minorities. The goal is to equalize the racial, sexual and ethnic proportions of personnel in academic institutions, according to Walter J. Leonard, Harvard's affirmative action czar. Goals, timetables and proportions are all euphemisms for quotas, without which the charges of "deficiency" and "underutilization" wouldn't make any sense. In fact, the demand for stricter quotas with closer compliance was the main point of the recent student demonstration...