Word: czar
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...finally to click on a winning choice. In a move that drew praise even from his harshest critics, President Nixon ordered a sweeping reorganization of the Government's energy policymaking system and installed a tough-minded former investment banker, Deputy Treasury Secretary William Simon, as his newest energy czar (TIME...
...unit will be headed by William E. Simon, 46, now Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, who will report directly to Nixon. Simon, a millionaire former investment banker and tough decision maker (see box), thus becomes the nation's new energy czar, succeeding John A. Love, head of the old Energy Policy Office. Love, who was often criticized for vacillation, was thunderstruck to learn of his demotion late last week, when he was called into the White House and shown an organization chart with Simon's name on top. On paper he remains a senior energy adviser...
...contrast between Simon and John A. Love, the man he will replace as energy czar, could hardly be greater. Love, a former Colorado Governor, has been described by one Government energy official as "a pleasant guy who just doesn't want to make a decision if he can avoid it." Wall Streeter Simon is known for decisiveness and a hot temper. In not quite a year in Washington, he has also displayed a talent for bureaucratic infighting. A good five months before the Arab embargo, Simon, as head of the Government's Oil Policy Committee, was already talking...
...swindler and onetime Roosevelt employee, who was testifying during an investigation of organized crime in stock and security frauds. Under questioning by Senator Charles Percy, Mastriana told the subcommittee members that in 1968 he had been offered $100,000 by Roosevelt and Michael McLaney, a reputed associate of Gambling Czar Meyer Lansky, to kill Pindling after the Prime Minister refused to grant McLaney a gambling license in exchange for campaign contributions...
Moreover, once abandoned, any democracy at all may be hard to recover after the swirling storm of revolution. The Soviet Union emerged from its upheaval as a distorted caricature of socialist ideals. Its present Czar, Leonid Brezhnev, shakes hands with Richard Nixon, abandons North Vietnam to American terror-bombing, and refuses to send aid to Chile after the United States cuts off its support...