Word: czar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Treasury Secretary William Simon. The unchallenged energy czar when he headed FEA through its first five months, Simon supposedly relinquished the job when he moved to Treasury. But he thinks energy problems are primarily economic and that he should play a major role in both areas...
...Potomac. "I felt a stab when I saw them leaving for the Sequoia," said a member of Mrs. Nixon's personal staff. "If I felt as bad as I did, how must they feel? Yet they were smiling and seemed really cheerful." The scene was reminiscent of the Czar's family going into exile...
...formation of a government. They went by the modern auditorium built beneath the ancient church spires with gilded onion domes. Nixon noted how old and new were fitted together behind the Kremlin walls. He paused a moment In the discussion to take another look at the monstrous, potbellied Czar Cannon that still stands as a reminder of old glories-and repressions...
...been jailed twelve times before being deported five years ago. Soares was met at Lisbon's Santa Apolonia Railroad Station by a throng of 7,000, a scene that some compared to Lenin's famous arrival at the Finland Station in 1917 after the fall of the Czar. The second prominent exile to come back was Communist Alvaro Cunhal, 59, who had been living in Eastern Europe for the past 14 years, after serving 13 years in Portuguese jails. Cunhal's presence was the most tangible sign so far that the junta is sincere when it promises...
Phone Demon. Simon enters the Cabinet after only 17 months in Washington; Shultz spirited him away from a Wall Street bond-trading career that had made him a millionaire to take the No. 2 job at Treasury in December 1972. In that post, and later as energy czar, the 46-year-old Simon acquired a reputation for candor, accessibility to the press and to Congress, and a fierce independence. He has clashed publicly with other top Administration officials, and even found himself at odds with the President last winter when Simon ridiculed some energy-crisis observations by the Shah...