Word: titular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...both Khrushchev and his heir apparent, Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, a Ukrainian who has been his protege during the long, hard-fought battle to raise Russian living standards. Since 1960, burly, bushy-browed Brezhnev, 57, has been Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet and Russia's titular head of state...
Twice in 1959, fierce riots broke out over Panama's demands for greater benefits. Since then, the U.S. has offered higher wages for Panamanian workers and half a dozen other concessions-along with twin flags as evidence of Panama's "titular sovereignty" over the Zone. But that satisfied neither Panama nor oldline U.S. residents, who feared that it would undercut their privileged position. Chiari has not yet spelled out his precise demands. But he surely will ask for greater control over the Zone and a vastly increased share of the revenues-he once mentioned $10 million a year...
Large and jolly Victor Lord Roth schild, 53, the titular head of the Brit ish family, is a Cambridge don who has made a mark as philanthropist, scien tist and Labor peer, is also chairman of Shell Research. An expert on fertili zation, he once astonished BBC-TV viewers by bringing before the cameras an enormous model of a human sperm. (His daughter Emma, 15, this year be came the youngest woman ever admitted to Cambridge.) Like many Roth schild men and women who have made a tradition of volunteering for hazardous duty in wars from 1870 onward...
...years Soviet transmitters beamed a propaganda barrage against neighboring Iran, including appeals for insurrection against Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi. These days Moscow's line is more seductive than destructive. In Teheran on a state visit last week, toasting the health of "Your Imperial Majesty," was the titular Soviet Chief of State, Leonid L. Brezhnev, one of Nikita Khrushchev's most promising prot...
...Lord High Chancellor, a Cabinet member who earns $5,600 a year more than the Prime Minister, serves simultaneously as the government's chief legal adviser, the nation's senior judge, titular head of the legal profession and Speaker of the House of Lords...