Word: boss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...West Germany's government. When he left the Bundestag and took his leave of the Palais Schaumburg, where for three years he had ruled as Chancellor, Erhard was a lonely and dejected figure. No such emotions troubled flinty old Konrad Adenauer, Germany's first postwar Chancellor and the onetime boss of both Erhard and Kiesinger. While the delegates clapped and cheered for the new Chancellor, Adenauer sat on the front bench and busily autographed copies of his memoirs for all comers...
Coups have become the rule rather than the exception in populous Nigeria, which is divided into four rival regions and torn by tribal competition. In 1966 alone, two rulers have been murdered, along with countless of their countrymen, in bloody riots and slaughters. When Army Boss Yakubu Gowon, 31, seized power in July in the last coup, he promised that his military government would quickly "fade away," presumably without the necessity of another coup. Last week Gowon announced that he had changed his mind, at least for now, and that he personally would draft a new constitution for Nigeria...
...skill-indefatigable investigation. After law school, Bailey attended Chicago's Keeler Polygraph Institute, then helped an elderly Boston lawyer defend an accused wife killer who had flunked a lie-detector test. Bailey was hired merely to cross-examine the prosecution polygrapher. But during the trial, his boss, 72, collapsed of a heart attack. Bailey, then 27, took over and won the case. After that, he was hired by the four suspects in U.S. history's biggest cash heist, the $1,551,277 Plymouth, Mass., mail robbery.* After one suspect had agreed to help postal inspectors bug the other...
...investigator for Boston's strangler bureau. Divorced and remarried (three children), he is rich in possessions: a Pontiac GTO, a Thunderbird, three sizable yachts, a 17-room ranch house and 80 acres in Marshfield near Boston. The whole empire is connected by two-way radios that keep the boss in constant touch as he swoops around the country in his Cessna 310 airplane...
Only a shade subtler is the Scope campaign, which opens with a man in a T shirt emoting into his mirror: "Boss, you could fire me for this, but you have bad breath. BAD BREATH!" Then, anguished minutes later, the employee is in the office and begins, shakily, "Boss," only to be interrupted, mercifully, by the boss's fragrant announcement: "Johnson, I have discovered a new mouthwash...