Word: czars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young man with a slipped disk in the backbone of his ambition, Tom Rath has a certain appeal. Though he strains visibly. Author Wilson never lifts His administrative czar Hopkins off the literary blueprints. As a fable of the "tense and frantic" '50s, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit catches a little of the social transiency of Commuterland, where the richest nomads in the world fold their $15,000 and $25,000 tents and move on in the family Buick to more exclusive oases. Unfortunately, too much of the novel verges on upper-middle-class soap opera baited...
...Some notable pals who walked the plank in earlier years: Cipriano Reyes, who mobilized packinghouse workers to catapult Perón to power in 1945, arrested (and still jailed after seven years); Miguel Miranda, Perón's onetime economic czar, ousted: Juan Bramuglia, Foreign Minister who incurred the wrath of Eva Perón, and Oscar Ivanissevich. Education Minister who wrote the pep song Peronista Boys, both forced to resign: Domingo Mercante, governor of Buenos Aires Province, humiliated and ousted; Juan Duarte, Perón's own brother-in-law and private secretary, repudiated and fired...
...Warsaw's Radziwill Palace, once the residence of the Czar's regent in Poland, the top Communist leaders of Russia's satellite states conferred with Premier Bulganin and Defense Minister Zhukov over a fistful of interlocking treaties for the Soviet Union's NATO-type organization in Eastern Europe. The meeting got the crystal-chandelier treatment, with all flags flying...
...breezy deck of the liner Queen Elizabeth, just before they sailed for Europe, Trumpeter James Caesar Petrillo, loud-tooting czar of the A.F.L. musicians, shot the breeze with one of his most distinguished rank-and-filers, Violin Virtuoso Yehudi Menuhin. Subject oft their chat: the merits of forming a United Nations orchestra. Petrillo was heading for an international labor powwow in Vienna; Menuhin, between concerts in Europe, could get in some hot licks on a forthcoming book about his recent odyssey. Tentative title: Around the World on a G-String...
...Bolshevik Army. When the Bolshevik Revolution broke in 1917, Zhukov was back home in his Kaluga village, a sick young dragoon of 21 and, like millions of other Russians, profoundly disillusioned vith the Czar's conduct of the war. To crush active opposition to their rule, the Bolsheviks formed an army out of bands of irregulars, war refugees, peasants, groups of industrial workers and trade unionists. "Even after defeats and retreats," reported Trotsky, the first Bolshevik War Commissar, "the flabby, panicky mob would be transformed in two or three weeks into an efficient fighting force. It needed good commanders...