Word: fiefdoms
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...tests between Democratic Chicago and Republican downstate Illinois, but this year the G.O.P. had a contender who could hold his own in the city: Cook County Board President Richard Ogilvie, 45, who won his current position and a previous term as Cook County Sheriff in Mayor Daley's Democratic fiefdom. A World War II tank commander, whose facial injuries left him with a masklike expression, Ogilvie earned fame as a Mafia-busting U.S. special investigator, a fact that helped him win against the hard law-and-order line of Democratic Incumbent Governor Samuel Shapiro...
Cuba took a holiday last week to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Moncada barracks raid. Among the observers at the festivities was TIME Correspondent Richard Duncan, who toured Castro's island fiefdom to see how Cuba has changed in the decade since Fidel took control. His report...
...summoning Brandt to East Berlin, the Soviets served notice that they will use their influence to frustrate Bonn's efforts to enjoy better relations with other Communist states until Bonn extends its desire for détente to Ulbricht's fiefdom. The West Berliners blame Russia as well as Ulbricht for their plight; an angry crowd of them marched on the Soviet memorial in the British sector, only to be turned away by bayonet-wielding Russian soldiers. Radio Moscow beamed some advice to West Berliners: "He who lives on an island must be friends with...
...personally for eight hours. Then, wearing camouflage uniforms with tags obscurely reading "Big Game! Styled by Broadway," they were marched off-presumably to their execution. At week's end, Duvalier indignantly demanded a meeting of the U.N. Security Council to investigate this latest "armed aggression" against his dark fiefdom...
...Xerox. Founded in 1906 as the Haloid Co., a maker of photographic papers, the firm prospered quietly until the early '40s, when noisy court battles erupted among its twelve founding partners-including Wilson's father, who eventually won control. When his turn to take over the family fiefdom came in 1946, Joe Wilson, then 36, found it faltering. Searching for profitable new business, he seized on a little-known copying process called "xerography," and in eight years raised some $87.6 million in loans and stock issues to finance research. Once the process-which is unique in that...