Word: premiership
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Khrushchev's jobs and the one that has been traditionally the key to Soviet power: the secretaryship of the Communist Party. Kosygin, a trained economist and business-minded technician who has had little political experience but may just be the smarter and deeper of the two, inherited the premiership. Both had been known as Khrushchev's prot...
...Papandreou had good reason for his caution: a year ago, when Premier Constantine Karamanlis, who in his eight years in power had been a close ally of Frederika and King Paul, vetoed a trip to Britain the royal couple wanted to make, he lost their friendship-and his premiership...
...from the right of an East Berlin operetta theater in 1946 to shake hands center-stage with Communist East German President Wilhelm Pieck. The gesture gave Moscow the façade of legality that it wanted to create the German Democratic Republic in East Germany. Though Grotewohl got the premiership as his reward, Ulbricht and Moscow thereafter ignored him, letting him indulge the good life he enjoyed: he once even bought his mistress a red Triumph sports...
...some, the wait has been longer than for others. Labor began clamoring for elections nearly a year ago, when the Tories were reeling from the Profumo scandal and the inelegantly managed succession of Lord Home to Harold Macmillan's premiership. Sir Alec held off, gambling that with the passage of time the splotches on the Tory escutcheon would fade. Sure enough, the commanding popular lead that Labor held in the opinion polls has now all but evaporated: two of Britain's three national surveys in fact gave the Conservatives a slight edge last week. Snapped Labor Party Leader...
...Tough old Shigeru Yoshida, now 85, is the only man to have served three consecutive terms as Prime Minister in postwar Japan. That was largely because his premiership from 1948 to 1954 spanned the transition from Allied occupation to Japanese independence...