Word: shake-up
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...shake-up was termed typical of a dictatorship because of the absence of a regular process of succession...
...SHAKE-UP will be recommended in a Cabinet committee report going to the President this month. The Committee wants the President to ask Congress for a complete overhaul of ICC rules and policies to do away with red tape (TIME, April 5), give rail and highway carriers more freedom to set their own rates, and allow railroads to cut out money-losing passenger lines without the necessity of getting permission from state regulatory bodies...
...mufflers and other silencing devices were developed under the direction of President Ralph S. Evinrude, son of Evinrude's founder. But the move to silence the entire line of Evinrudes and Johnsons was made after Joe Rayniak took Outboard. Marine's helm in a management shake-up a year and a half ago (TIME, Feb. 9, 1953). Under Rayniak, 64, who started as a toolmaker, the company spent some $2,000,000 in research on sound.* With its silent motors, Outboard, Marine, which now has about half of the market, expects to help boost the number of outboards...
...shake-up in the police in the direction of safeguarding the welfare of all Tunisian residents, including the 3,300,000 Arabs and Berbers as well as the 250,000 colons...
...rule of Paraguay's aging (71) President Federico Chaves. The little (pop. 1,500,000), landlocked republic is totally dominated by the government's Colorado party, and Chaves, as party boss, had been tightrope walking his way through trouble since last December, when he ordered a rough shake-up of the cabinet. His foot finally slipped when he arrested an army major as a plotter. General Alfredo Stroessner, 41, the army's 6-ft., German-descended commander, angrily called for a showdown, and an unplanned, unwanted revolution...