Word: czars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THOUGH not on a military assignment, Bill McHale, our Rome bureau chief, met his death last week in the line of duty. He was killed in the plane crash that also took the life of Italy's oil czar, Enrico Mattei, whom he was accompanying to gather material for a story. Whether covering street riots in the Middle East, or undergoing the normal hazards of a much-traveled foreign correspondent, McHale was familiar with danger...
...hazy, symbolic inferno, a red-velours-lined Manhattan key club. But essentially the members of this eclectic hell divide be tween the damned and the dim. The damned shine phosphorescently. The dim give off flickers of goodness. Among the damned: an ambisextrous movie queen (Salome Jens), a thuggish labor czar (Neville Brand). Among the dim: a songstress with maternal yearnings (Carol Lawrence), a lawyer with a festering case of Korean combat fatigue (Jack Kelly), an aging poet-turned-furniture-dealer (Walter Abel) and his wife (Carmen Mathews) who has a Ponce de Leon complex. From 1 a.m. to dawn, these...
...Panaceas. Like any Russian of conscience, he longed to improve miserable conditions in his country, languishing under Czar Alexander III. Chekhov wrote stories about the brutalized existence of the serf and the stagnating intelligentsia. In 1890. he journeyed 10,000 miles to write a report on the penal colony on Sakhalin Island. He built schools for peasants and treated their ills for nothing. But he could not shake off a medical man's distrust of all panaceas. Whether it was Communism, Tolstoy's windy plans for the spiritual regeneration of mankind, or Dostoevsky's wild chiaroscuro Christianity...
...first time that a Russian audience had heard an American-born singer in the title role of Boris Godunov. For his passionate and athletic performance -in faultless Russian-of the tragic Czar, enormous (6 ft. 6 in.. 195 Ibs.) Metropolitan Opera Bass Jerome Mines, 40, drew a tumultuous standing ovation and six curtain calls from the opening night crowd at Moscow's Bolshoi Theater. Said the Hollywood-born Hines, modestly trying to sound surprised at the cheers: "How do you think Americans would feel if they saw Yuri Gagarin on the launching pad at Cape Canaveral...
Like Chrysler Corp. itself, the new Chrysler cars are in transition. Only a year ago, flamboyant C.C. ("Tex") Colbert was replaced as czar of Chrysler by a duumvirate: Chairman George Love, 62, and aggressive President Lynn Townsend, 43. Townsend, as operating chief, immediately set out to improve the appearance of Chrysler cars, but because at least two years' lead time is required for any major body changes, he had to settle for relatively limited changes designed to enhance his cars' basic body lines. Townsend's hope is that the '63s will reverse Chrysler's decline...