Word: czars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cross reference data at the Berlin Documents Center, an archive of old Nazi membership files rescued from the storage heap of a West German papermill after the war. Resisting the temptation to spill the facts on Bartsch, intelligence bided its time. Fortnight ago, the rising Herr Bartsch became agricultural czar, and at this point out to West Berlin newspapers went full dossiers on the new Communist Cabinet Minister...
...foreign traders was broken up in the Moslem Soviet Republic of Uzbekistan. Alas, a railroad policeman was on the platform of Tashkent's station when coins clinked at the feet of an elderly beggar. The cop discovered that the coins were solid gold and bore the face of Czar Nicholas...
Never in Public. His name was Harry Gerguson alias Arthur Wellesley alias Count Gladstone alias Prince Michael Alexandrovitch Dmitry Obolensky Romanoff, cousin and occasionally half brother of Nicholas II, last Czar of all the Russias. After preparing at Eton, he had been to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Heidelberg, Oxford and Cambridge. Since, in fact, he was born in the New York area of indeterminate parentage, he always refused to speak Russian in public. But he was scrupulously elegant, with a camel's hair accent and a mill-racing brain. He lived on both coasts of North America and made occasional...
...local had gone all that time under Petrillo's presidency without a meaningful challenge to his reign. Now it dared to rebel. "Jimmy, why don't you cut out?" demanded a folk singer at a Local 10 meeting last month. Jimmy, who voluntarily quit in 1958 as czar of the American Federation of Musicians, amid an arpeggio of tears, could not see leaving his $26,000 job as the head of Local 10. "I don't think they have any problems," he said...
...death of Italian Oil Czar Enrico Mattei left the Italian government with the choice of dismembering the state-owned E.N.I. oil and gas monopoly that he ran as a personal fief, or choosing a tough successor to carry on Mattei's expansionary and controversial policies. Premier Amintore Fanfani last week did neither. To succeed Mattei as head of the "state within the state'' Fanfani selected E.N.I.'s scholarly vice president. Professor Marcello Boldrini, a mere 72, and Mattel's lifelong loyal friend...