Word: reigns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...usual, had lithely jumped the right way-promised: "Things are going to be the same as before, only better." Scores of cities and towns named Molotov or Kaganovich petitioned with punctual unanimity to have their names changed. Ukrainian Premier Nikifor Kalchenko charged that during Stalin's reign Kaganovich had made "grave and unfounded accusations" against Ukrainian leaders, many of whom were purged. In Moscow, Presidium Alternate Alexei Kosygin said of Molotov and Kaganovich: "The basic fault that led to their anti-party activities was vanity. They considered they did not have enough power. They were more interested in discrediting...
Khrushchev made his point clearer: the accused had had a hand in the famous "Leningrad Case." This was a conspiracy that had cost the life of Politburocrat Nikolai Voznesensky, Soviet Russia's chief economic planner, in 1948-49 (during Stalin's reign). After Khrushchev became First Party Secretary, Secret Police Boss Viktor Abakumov and three subordinates were executed in December 1954 for their role in it. Said Khrushchev menacingly last week: "Malenkov, who was one of the chief organizers of the so-called Leningrad Case, simply was afraid to come to you here in Leningrad." If Malenkov...
...this seemed to suit Phetsarath just fine. He announced he would now tour the southern provinces, picking up more hibiscus blossoms and kowtows. Wrily old Phetsarath, who is possibly the best big-game hunter in Southeast Asia, would be delighted to let confusion reign indefinitely in both Luang Prabang and Vientiane. If things get too badly snarled up, he might be willing to take over the premiership himself. And after that, who knows? He might even bag his uncle's white umbrella...
Canada's election campaign raced toward voting day on June 10 with seemingly little doubt-according to pollsters -that Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent's Liberals would extend their 22-year reign. But the Tory opposition party, aroused by earnest Prairie Lawyer John Diefenbaker, threatened to walk off with a sizable chunk of the comfortable Liberal majority in the House of Commons...
...Caesar's reign also closes a TV era in which the comedian was king, and leaves supremacy to a new breed of blander favorites-the Perry Comos, the Lawrence Welks. the Tennessee Ernie Fords (see below). Almost all the comics have surrendered or compromised in the face of TV's terrible challenge of keeping both material and audiences from getting tired. Next fall CBS's Jackie Gleason will take a sabbatical, and NBC's George Gobel will try to salvage his popularity by cutting down his exposure. Such perennials as Bob Hope, Jack Benny and Burns...