Word: czars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Douglas, Mobster Mickey Cohen, 50, serving a 15-year sentence for income tax evasion, became the first man in memory to leave Alcatraz on bail ($100,000). After seeking to wash away the taint of his 82-day imprisonment with five successive hot baths, the longtime West Coast gambling czar flew home to his Carousel ice cream parlor in suburban Los Angeles and, as a pair of conspicuously inconspicuous plainclothesmen crunched cones at the counter, proceeded to stake out the future. Top items on the agenda: a call on his aging mother, a thank-you note to Justice Douglas...
...Casey (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). TV's larger-than-life neurosurgeon picks the brain of an ailing industrial czar who has entered the hospital under a phony name because he fears his company's stock will drop if investors hear that the great man is shaky...
Gromyko: Sophistry. Gromyko listened stonily to Kennedy-except for a thin smile at a Kennedy gibe comparing Khrushchev's wall building in Berlin to the Czar's orders in Pushkin's Boris Godunov. Next day, in his reply, Gromyko used a tone that was-by Russian standards-moderate, particularly on Berlin. But there was little in his words be yond a recital of well-known Soviet points: Russia will not accept a treaty to end nuclear tests, said Gromyko, for the whole matter should be tied in with (and, presumably, stalled by) the tangled question of overall...
...magnetic mountain, which is fed ton by ton into the city's open-hearth and blast furnaces, making it the greatest metallurgical center in the Soviet Union. Nearby Sverdlovsk used to be known as Ekaterinburg, and was chiefly famous as the spot where, in 1918, the Bolsheviks executed Czar Nicholas II and his family. Today its 800,000 people build machine tools, TV sets, railroad cars and ball bearings...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). Emperor Franz Joseph, Czar Nicholas II, Edward VII, Kaiser Wilhelm, Alexandre Eiffel, Wilbur Wright, Leo Tolstoy, Mrs. Dreyfus and Emile Zola are all on view in "The Turn of the Century." Repeat...