Word: rank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sihanouk then appointed his longtime friend and adviser Sam Sary as special economic counselor to the government, with the personal rank of Prime Minister. But Sam Sary, even with his special rank, still approached the real Prime Minister, Sihanouk, only on his hands and knees. Sam Sary instituted a new economic policy of liberalized imports, but they, too, came under fire. Rival ministers whispered in Sihanouk's ear that Sam Sary was being paid off by Chinese merchants, accused him of accepting diamond-studded platinum wristwatches and other bribes...
Lieut. General Thomas S. Power, 51, picks up four-star rank as LeMay's hand-picked successor as boss of SAC. Long Island-born Bomber-Specialist Power quit the twelfth grade to work, joined up as an Army Air Corps flying cadet at 23, in World War II successfully led the first low-level B-29 fire raid on Tokyo for LeMay's long-range 21st Bomber Command. For six years he was LeMay's deputy at SAC. Restless, compact (5 ft. 8 in., 165 Ibs.), tiger-tense Tommy Power winds up three years as chief housekeeper...
...huge Ford empire. McNamara was named group vice president in charge of all car and truck divisions, succeeding ailing Executive Vice President Lewis D. Crusoe, 62, who retired. McNamara, who has been vice president and general manager of the Ford Division since 1955, will rank after Board Chairman Ernest Breech, 60, President Henry Ford II and Del Harder, 65, executive vice president for basic manufacturing, is in line to be No. 1 man under President Ford when the other two retire...
...organ of parties in government, no person regardless of rank, merits, history or past victories has the right to silence critics." There should be no more terror: the new education of the masses must "be carried on seriously but with the gentleness of a breeze or of light rain . . . Except in major offenses against law or discipline, all should be exempt from punitive measures. Self-criticism and criticism of others should take place in heart-to-heart talks between comrades. There must be no mass public assemblies and no battles." The new campaign even went...
Untangling the knotted skein of corruption that spewed from the power reel of Teamster Boss Dave Beck, the select Senate committee investigating labor racketeering has turned up some devastating evidence. Even so, many a rank-and-file teamster could still tell himself that Good Old Dave had the boys' interests at heart, no matter what he did. Last week, as the hearings took on a new reel. Good Old Dave turned out to be Bad Old Dave for even the toughest teamster. Reason: testimony plainly showed that Dave 1) used the Teamsters, whenever it suited his money-hungry whims...