Word: czars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Naples, a six-man commission of solid citizens and cops grilled onetime U.S. Vice Czar Charles ("Lucky") Luciano, 57, deported from the U.S. in 1946. After keeping him squirming on the hot seat for half an hour, the six unanimously decided that Lucky is "socially dangerous because of well-founded suspicions that he lives on crime and by crime." Just to help him be a good boy, the commission prescribed a virtuous regimen for Luciano, ruled that for the next two years he must 1) stay home between dusk and dawn, 2) roam no farther than Naples' near suburbs...
...19th century French wit once remarked that there were only two monarchs in the world whose thrones he envied. One was Czar Nicholas, absolute autocrat of 120 million Russians; the other was the Prince of Monaco, who knew most of his subjects by name. Russia's Czar is no more, and the 20th century has whittled down the list of Europe's monarchs to an inconspicuous handful, but in the tiny (half-mile square) principality of Monaco, which huddles precariously between the mountains and the sea on France's Riviera, the Genoese Grimaldi dynasty still rules...
...mistress, and his great-greatgrandfather was a lover of Catherine the Great. The old rake was so rich he had a private theater and ballet, and so dissolute that when he waved his cane all dancers appeared on stage stark naked. Young Prince Felix married a niece of the Czar, vowed he would save the 300-year-old Romanoff dynasty by assassinating Rasputin, the magnetic evil genius of the Czar and Czarina. On the night of Dec. 29, 1916, the prince, aged 29, lured Rasputin to the basement of his St. Petersburg home and, while accomplices played Yankee Doodle...
...Johnson Office clearance, motion pictures could have come upon a new era of mature, thoughtful production commensurate with the responsibility of new-found freedom. Fortunately, in the interest of maintaining a consistent front of juvenile sensationalism, moving pictures are headed back to the excesses that once made Hays censorship czar...
...week's end Federal Housing Czar Albert M. Cole released an additional list of 40 apartment projects, which resulted in another $14 million worth of windfalls...