Word: boss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lunch. Tam Chau, 44, once considered Tri Quang's rival, likes such creature comforts as his chauffeured Mercedes sedan. Tri Quang twits him about it, himself takes pedicabs about town. In and out is Thich Thien Minh, Tri Quang's former schoolmate who is now his first lieutenant and boss of the Bud dhist Youth, which provides the backbone of Tri Quang's demonstrations...
...floated through the hall. The music was transmitted from Luna X, a Soviet moon probe that had been launched a week before and only twelve hours earlier had become the first spacecraft to go into orbit around the moon. At the sound, tears welled in the eyes of Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev. Jumping to his feet, he led the 6,000 Soviet and foreign delegates in rhythmic applause...
Ironically, it was East Germany's Red boss, Walter Ulbricht, 72, who inadvertently touched off the outburst. As a propaganda ploy, Ulbricht has for years written an annual letter to the Social Democrat Party in West Germany, piously imploring the SPD as the representative of the working class to join with his Socialist Unity Party in bringing about German reunification. Each year the Social Democrats had refused to answer the detested Ulbricht-until this year. Reflecting West Germany's new and more flexible attitude toward the Communist bloc, the Social Democrats last month fired back a reply that...
...unbridled attack as came last week from the head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. About 500 drug-company delegates gathered at Boca Raton, Fla., for the annual convention of the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association could have used some of their own tranquilizers after the FDA's new boss, Dr. James Goddard, got up to speak. He accused the industry's executives of slovenliness, deception and dishonesty-and warned them that they had better straighten up or else face much stricter controls...
...raider and would not even let him look at the company's books. Newhouse fought back by filing a flock of lawsuits; he charged that the papers' profits were being haphazardly poured into the already swollen employee pension funds. In turn, the newspapers ran stories belittling their boss...