Word: troika
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...will replace an interim troika composed of himself, Brinkley and Frank McGee. NBC News President Reuven Frank insists that the change has nothing to do with ratings. (Since 1968, two years before Huntley left, CBS has had a small but respectable lead in the evening-news audience. The standings have not changed appreciably with the Chancellor-Brinkley-McGee format...
lacocca waited for 15 more months as a member of the new ruling troika. Last week he finally got the job he wanted. Henry Ford announced that the marketing whiz, now 46, would become the sole president of Ford Motor. Henry Ford, who remains chief executive officer and undisputed boss, plans to spend more time developing overseas opportunities for the company. William Innes, vice president for manufacturing, will move up to lacocca's old job as domestic auto chief...
...power he wielded as absolute master of the vast Cheka, or secret-police, organization. The sweeping postwar purge of the Leningrad party, Khrushchev believes, was part of a scheme masterminded by Beria and his "battering ram," former Premier Georgy Malenkov; the object was to wreck the careers of a troika of promising young men whom they regarded as a threat to their own eventual ascendancy. Two of those men, N.A. Voznesensky and A.A. Kuznetsov, were arrested and shot. The third, says Khrushchev, "was hanging by a thread. I simply can't explain how he was saved from being exterminated...
...record judgment in every county in California," he adds. Good as Boccardo declares himself to be, it has taken a recent association with two Reno lawyers to really start nailing down the superverdicts. If Belli still claims to be King of Torts, this trio deserves a new title: Troika of Torts...
...heart condition-but his personality is about as drab as Sadat's. Nevertheless, Sadat is likely to share considerable power with Sabry and Interior Minister and former Chief of Intelligence Shaarawi Gomaa, who has emerged as a strong contender for leadership. To see that this troika continues Nasser's policy of close relations with the Kremlin, Moscow last week announced the appointment of Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir M. Vinogradov, 49, as ambassador to Cairo. Vinogradov was an impressive replacement for the late ambassador, Sergei A. Vinogradov (no kin), who before his death two months ago was a kind...