Word: czar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...These are not evil men. There was no one man in control. There was no czar. But men who become convinced their cause is just resort to means to attain it that they otherwise would not consider. For example, I can't conceive of any Government, any presidential Administration, letting a man like Liddy run around loose...
...being urged by former Defense Secretary Melvin Laird, a close personal friend of the President's. Among other things, Laird wants oil imports chopped by 50% and a strict gasoline-rationing program much like the one in force during World War II (see box page 14). Though Energy Czar Rogers Morton, Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns and some leading Democrats, including Senator Henry Jackson, have been ardent supporters of stringent conservation measures, none of them have gone so far as to call for all-out rationing...
Part spectacle, part Sophoclean tragedy, part historical drama, part revolutionary tract, Modest Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov is a truly original epic that brings old Russia startlingly to life. It is the semihistorical tale of a Kremlin politician who attains his country's throne by murdering the czar's only heir, the boy Dimitri. Filled with remorse, fear and delusion, Boris dies a crazed death as a people's revolution, led by a false Dimitri, prepares to overthrow him. Powerfully scored, Boris has no peers in Russia and precious few in all of opera. Yet for close...
...claimants to nonexistent thrones live better than their ex-subjects. Spain and Portugal seem to be the favorite spots of exile, with Switzerland a close third. Albania's Leka I, Bulgaria's Simeon II and Russia's Grand Duke Vladimir-who presumably would be enthroned as Czar Vladimir III if the Romanovs were ever restored to power-live in Spain. Italy's Umberto II, Spain's Don Juan and Portugal's own Duarte, Duke of Braganza reside in Portugal. In Switzerland, there are Michael of Rumania and Ahmed-Fuad II of Egypt (Farouk...
...program, he granted full pardon to eight convicted resisters and conditional clemency to ten others. To counter criticism that his White House has not yet focused on domestic problems in the fashion that it has foreign affairs, Ford has decided, TIME has learned, to make Nelson Rockefeller his domestic "czar" once Rockefeller is-confirmed as Vice President by Congress...