Word: czars
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Your March 17 story on Senator Johnson appeared at a most opportune time. With all these satellite launchings, etc., the problem of space congestion is getting critical. Obviously, what we need is a space czar. Who is a natural for the job? Senator Johnson of Texas. Why? Because space is what they have most of in Texas; secondly, he should have no trouble in getting confirmed by the Senate. From the way he treats those other "pore" Southern Senators, they should be glad to have him off their backs...
After years of bleating that he was only an honest businessman, deported Manhattan Vice Czar Charles ("Lucky") Luciano, 60, convinced a Naples court commission that he is not really "socially dangerous" at all. Rejecting police arguments for closer surveillance of high-living Businessman Luciano, the commission found him "a free citizen who . . . conducts a perfectly regular life which gives no grounds for censure...
Quincy's 17 year (1829 through 1845) as czar of Bohemia-on-the-Charles were not significant for their pacificity. Josiah dealt his justice with a poker-face--suspending the entire sophomore class in 1834 for "roughhousing" about the infamous Yardling "Rebellion Tree...
Chunky, hard-boiled Teamster Czar Jimmy Hoffa has shown remarkable talents in recent months both for getting into trouble and for wriggling out. Jimmy's latest wriggle: in Washington last week, U.S. District Judge F. Dickinson Letts lifted his own injunction barring Hoffa from taking office as Teamster president. At the Teamsters' marble-and-glass palace in Washington, Jimmy's secretary promptly started greeting telephone callers with a cheery "President Hoffa's office." But Hoffa was a president on a leash, and the other end was held by Judge Letts...
...been playing for years. It is badly snarled and loose ends stick out all over. . . It cannot be untangled by wrapping more yarn on the outside. . . It is a big, vast, intricate thing, and I don't think you can wind another committee or another czar or another group on the outside of a tangle and straighten out the tangle...