Word: czars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Balanced Panels. Much of Jim Killian's influence derives from the need that the President and the nation had for such a man when he went to Washington last fall. The Communists had put up Sputnik I, and the editorialists were crying for a "Science Czar." Dr. Killian got the headlines, if not the specific job. He added to his influence at once with a shot of his old M.I.T. organizational energy. He expanded membership of the President's Science Advisory Committee from twelve to 17, recruited scores of scientists coast to coast...
...into Syria, stationing at least one Egyptian officer with every Syrian army company. Playing his proconsuls against each other. Nasser has split authority in Syria among 1) Old Politicos Akram Hourani and Sabri el Assali, Vice Presidents of the U.A.R.; 2) Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj, now Interior Minister, press czar, and boss of a police state intelligence network; 3) Mahmoud Riad, onetime Egyptian army colonel and Ambassador to Syria, who is Nasser's shadow in Damascus. But while Nasser still rides tall in the saddle with the masses, he is faced with a growing restlessness among influential Syrians. Items...
What I cannot understand is why Americans are getting into such a tizzy about a single chief of staff. We have had one in England for a long time, and he has never shown the slightest predilection of becoming a czar...
...Russian as heresy and the work of such men as Copernicus as "the craft of the Devil.'' The first academicians were mostly from the West, but whether Russian or not, they soon acquired the special place in society that they hold today. Though a practical man, Czar Peter fully realized the value of research that might not bring immediate benefits. As a result, from the days of the early academy's great all-round genius Mikhail Lomonsov -poet, pioneer physical chemist, physicist, reformer of the language, and "father of the new Russian literature"-Russian science has flourished...
...AIRWAYS CZAR may soon be appointed and given absolute power to lay down rigid sky traffic rules to prevent mid-air collisions. Law is hastily being drafted to create a federal aviation agency, which would merge all air controls for military and commercial planes...