Word: czar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much is a homeland worth-if you need to buy one? About $1,000,000 to onetime Miami Gambling Czar Meyer Lansky, 70. For two years Lansky has been trying to find a permanent sanctuary in Israel for himself, his ailing wife and his dog. The Israeli high court rejected Lansky's application for citizenship, and now the Interior Ministry has given him two weeks to get out. Since he faces prosecution for tax evasion and contempt if he returns to the U.S., Lansky is reported to be offering the million in cash, plus substantial investments, to any country...
When it was all over, Heinz had beaten his opponent, also a millionaire, 2 to 1. He and his wife set up housekeeping in Washington, D.C., in what had been the Russian embassy during the reign of Czar Nicholas I (it cost the Heinzes $500,000), and plunged into the capital's social life. But Heinz has taken his political responsibilities seriously. A hard worker and self-styled moderate, he has bucked the Republican leadership on some big issues, including the war. Last spring on the floor of the House, he questioned the mining of Haiphong Harbor...
Steve Gladstone, the reigning czar of eastern hightweight rowing for the last five years, has abdicated his throne to take over the head coaching position at once-mighty Berkeley on the West Coast...
...were not likely to get through the Price Commission anyway? Quite possibly, aides wanted Nixon rather than Grayson to get credit for stopping the rise. Indeed, TIME learned last week that Rumsfeld never asked Grayson what the commission was likely to do, and did not even tell the price czar about the jawboning until after it had begun...
...long conceived it, a mysterious pageant presided over by God. It was, instead, a work of man. Society has laws and patterns that can be descried, like the laws of science, and used to improve the human lot. To the Finland Station ends after the fall of the czar in 1917 with the exiled Lenin's return to Russia (via the Finland Station in Petrograd) and his harsh speech calling upon the soldiers and workers of the revolution to reject the reforms of the revolutionary Provisional Government and seize all power for the people...