Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rank-and-file workers, especially in the ethnic neighborhoods of the North, are deserting the Democrats for the Wallace cause. Many Northern Democratic Congressmen are planning to instruct these voters how to split their tickets on Nov. 5 so that they can support Wallace without forgetting to pull levers for local Democrats. In the South, numerous conservative Democrats are openly allied with Wallace. Others are deserting to the G.O.P. Last week six cronies of Georgia's Senator Herman Talmadge, including State Comptroller General James Bentley, renounced their Democratic credentials and joined the Republicans. There is speculation in Atlanta that...
...interpretation was forceful enough to rank Verrett with the best Carmen of the day-Regina Resnik...
...Germany/Winter for Poland and France/We're marching to a faster pace/Look out, here comes the master race.") deserve enshrinement. But The Producers dies a slow and painful death, a half-hour at least without a laugh, and by the time it's over Brooks' short tenure at the front rank of movie comedies has ended also...
...with Brezhnev's own. Under pressure from Brezhnev and his Kremlin colleagues, Dubček accepted the resignation of Foreign Minister Jiři Hájek, who defiantly demanded withdrawal of Russian troops before the U.N. Security Council last month. He was the third reformer of ministerial rank to be sacked (Deputy Premier Ota Sik and Interior Minister Josef Pavel preceded him). Among other leaders forced out: Television Chief Jiři Pelikán, Radio Chief Zdenek Hejzlar and Dr. František Kriegel, popular liberal member of the Presidium. Brezhnev tossed Kriegel out of the Soviet...
Although the move had the government's blessing, the merger between British G.E. and English Electric into Britain's sixth largest company (combined sales: $2.2 billion) raised fears of monopoly both within and outside the electrical industry. The new firm would rank among the world's five biggest electrical companies, accounting for 90% of Britain's output of railway locomotives and up to half of the country's turbo generators, switchgear and transformers. The potential of the new combine's market domination prompted executives of Plessey Co. Ltd., a smaller electrical firm, to denounce...