Word: czar
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...country was entering the fourth year of .economic recovery. Carter might have recognized that this would be grossly inflationary-and that leaders of business and labor would post higher prices and press for steeper wages just to keep up. Robert Strauss, who was Carter's anti-inflation czar until last week, strong-armed coal mine operators last March to accept a highly inflationary contract (39% increases over three years). Carter might have recognized what would happen: every other union leader, just to prove his manhood and keep his job, would strive to equal or top that figure. Blumenthal, Strauss...
...world and how best to get from here to there." At week's end he had not decided whether to take the job. If he does, he has a quick enough wit to appreciate a gag that is circulating in Washington: he should be called not anti-inflation czar but king-King Kahn...
Sandwiched between the working sessions, the black-tie dinners and dances, the council members hold informal press conferences-sometimes too informal. For example, David Packard, chairman of Hewlett-Packard, who enjoys the hostelry's liquid assets, made an expletive re-pleted attack on Energy Czar James Schlesinger 18 months ago that left his colleagues goggle-eyed...
DIED. Serge Obolensky, 87, Russian prince who became a publicist and international socialite; in Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich. Scion of a wealthy White Russian family and husband of Czar Alexander II's daughter, the Oxford-educated Obolensky fled his native country after battling Bolsheviks as a guerrilla fighter. The tall, mustachioed aristocrat subsequently divorced Princess Catherine, married the daughter of American Financier John Jacob Astor, settled in the U.S. and worked with his brother-in-law, the real estate entrepreneur Vincent Astor. During World War II, Obolensky at 53 became the U.S. Army's oldest paratrooper and earned...
...great integrity and great knowledge." These words were used by Jimmy Carter last month to describe Robert Griffin, who had been fired in July as second in command of the scandal-ridden General Services Administration and given a $50,000-a-year consolation prize as assistant to Anti-Inflation Czar Robert Strauss. Griffin, the President said, had not been tainted by the widespread corruption that investigators have unearthed at the GSA, which spends $5 billion a year to provide federal bureaucrats with office space, supplies and housekeeping services. The cause for Griffin's dismissal was said to be only...