Word: heir
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...shuttered by the regime in January, prints 10,000 copies of a 6-in. by 9-in. miniature of a handsome, slick-paper tabloid, which are sneaked into Cuba by volunteer travelers, fishing boats, and roundabout from South America and Europe through unwatched commercial mails. Editor Jorge Zayas, aggressive heir to a publishing dynasty and grandson of a former President of Cuba, plans to add Miami social notes to the paper's steady diet of Cuban colony news. Although an estimated 7,500 copies of Avance reach Cuba every week (at least 2,500 are confiscated or dumped...
...Michigan unemployment mounted (as high as 16% in recession 1958), sales tax returns slumped, welfare costs soared. Soapy Williams, heir to a budget surplus of $21 million in 1949, was faced with a $110 million deficit by mid-1959 and practically no borrowing power. His proffered solution: pile a 5% profits tax on corporations, put a U.A.W.-endorsed income tax on middle and upper incomes, e.g., a family of four earning less than $6,333 Per year would pay nothing...
...waiting for Washington to draft something official and late. He also became surprisingly adept at rounding up Asian and African votes on important showdowns. The U.S. never lost in either the Security Council or the General Assembly in a head-on clash with the Russians. Last year Lodge fell heir to a special test of diplomacy when he was assigned to be Khrushchev's official host on the celebrated tour...
...spout off too much. But if I ever closed this mouth, God help Uncle Earl." Last week, only nine days after he won the Democratic primary nomination (and thus the election) for Congress from his home district, contentious Ole Earl Long, 65, three-time Governor of Louisiana, uneasy heir to the political fortunes of his rabble-rousing dictator brother Huey, said his last. Bedded in an Alexandria hospital, his body ravaged by a weak heart and his mind deteriorated, he gulped a cup of coffee, turned over in bed. coughed and died...
...reports that she is on chilly terms with her imperial sister-in-law, ex-Princess Suga, an emperor's daughter who six months ago married a bank clerk, insisted that she has never felt closer to Crown Princess Michiko, a mill owner's daughter who married the heir to an empire. Suga, who is delighted with the freedom she has found outside the palace as plain Mrs. Hisanaga Shimazu, sympathizes with Michiko in her struggle to observe palace protocol, feels that Michiko is "working too hard" in her efforts to live up to her role. Suga advises Michiko...