Word: czars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that Ungar had loaned the money without note or collateral. Indicted on charges of violating the city charter and of conspiracy, Jack declined to take the stand at the trial. But Operator Ungar, granted immunity from selfincrimination, testified that Jack had suggested the table-money story. And ex-Housing Czar Robert Moses repeated what he told the grand jury: that he had approved Ungar's slum-clearance project after learning that Borough President Jack was "obligated...
...claim to one (her husband's), retained her interest in the larger (her father's). "Tina" excitedly chattered the news to a friend, inquiring Hearst Gossipist Igor ("Cholly Knickerbocker") Cassini, who reached her by phone in Paris, where she is luxuriating with her two children by Shipping Czar Aristotle Socrates Onassis, 54. In mid-June, Tina spent a profitably unprofitable day in Alabama, got an uncontested divorce and custody of the kids from "Ari." She asked no alimony. Ground: mental cruelty. Tina now has no admitted plans to wed anyone, not even her most constant recent escort, handsome...
...Named for Jacob Sverdlov, a leader of 1917's Red Revolution, credited in Soviet history books with having ordered the execution of Czar Nicholas II and his family at Ekaterinburg, later renamed Sverdlovsk (where Pilot Francis Powers' U-2 went down...
...citizens had not been confiscated but was fairly paid for, the Department of State said: "To our knowledge not a single American property owner has been reimbursed." Washington listed eight other instances of Cuba's "intense official campaign of slander" against the U.S., among them Economic Czar "Che" Guevara's statement that the U.S.'s $150 million-a-year sugar subsidy to Cuba was actually a "form of slavery." Cuba rejected the U.S. protest...
...dawned, the miracle drugs made from molds have had no more ardent champion than a tough-looking, hard-working civil servant named Henry Welch. Starting with a 1943 crash project to develop standards for penicillin and methods of testing its purity and potency, he advanced to become undisputed czar of the industry. So bright did Welch's star shine that his bosses in the Food and Drug Administration boosted him from chief of the Antibiotics Division, at $14,450 a year, to the supergrade rank of director...