Word: premiership
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Every recognized expert on Soviet matters was greatly surprised at the sudden removal of Khrushchev, but they need not have been had they read your cover story of last Feb. 21. You as much as predicted the eventual rise of Brezhnev to the premiership...
...minded, troubleshooting economics expert, who will be responsible for the party's policy planning. Back from self-imposed exile came Renegades Iain Macleod and Enoch Powell, who had refused to serve in Sir Alec's administration after the unseemly struggle for succession to Harold Macmillan's premiership just a year ago. Macleod's job: leading the Tory attack against Labor's program to renationalize the steel industry. Right behind Maudling and Heath in authority Sir Alec installed Selwyn Lloyd, 60, onetime Foreign Secretary and a highly regarded party stalwart who was sacked by Macmillan...
...chiefly responsible for the Conservatives' return to power in 1951, and thereafter, will no longer roam the corridors of power. Shadow Foreign Secretary Rab Butler, 64, who twice lost out for the premiership (in 1957 and 1963), and has groomed such potential Prime Ministers as Maudling, Heath and Macleod, was relieved of his job as deputy Prime Minister and the party's most dynamic idea man. Butler's demise seemed inevitable after a pre-election newspaper interview in which Sir Alec's old rival had sardonically hinted at a Tory defeat...
...business executives," observed a Tokyo industrialist. "Kono is liked by barbers and taxi drivers." Both men - Eisaku Sato, 63, and Ichiro Kono, 66 - are even more warmly admired by rival factions of the ruling Conservative-Liberal Party. Last week they became hot rivals in a power struggle for the premiership of Japan. Their opportunity came when Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda, who has been hospitalized for eight weeks with a throat tumor, handed in his resignation...
...rivals for the premiership, cool, conservative Eisaku Sato is the stronger. A career bureaucrat, he is backed by his brother, ex-Premier Nobusuke Kishi (who changed his last name when he was adopted into the samurai family of his wife), as well as by another influential ex-Premier, Shigeru Yoshida; Sato served effectively in both their administrations. A candidate for party president in the Conservative-Liberal elections last July, Sato lost by only ten votes to Ikeda, who had appointed him to the key Ministry of Trade and Commerce. Sato subscribes to Ikeda's policies, although he favors...