Word: boss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Both press secretary Bill D. Moyers and his boss have circumscribed the press's ability to open up lines of communication between the President and the people. Washington correspondents should not exist solely to pass on White House press releases. They should also provide the public with a clear understanding of the rationale and implications of executive decisions, within the confines of national security...
Died. Russell Westover, 79, cartoonist and onetime San Francisco Bulletin sports illustrator who in 1921 eyed the post-World War I rush of women into the working world and launched Tillie the Toiler, a chic, shapely but scatterbrained comic-strip steno who primly kept one up on the boss and the office boys until she was retired in 1959; of a heart attack; in San Rafael, Calif...
...Lion Rampant, the House's literary magazine, is rooted in Winthrop's early-sixties renaissance. Winthrop also has almost weekly play-readings, a booming new radio station, and, of course, assistant senior tutor Barney Frank, who combines the virtues of a political philosophers with those of a Jersey ward boss. Although Barney is giving up his position as assistant senior tutor next year to handle undergraduate affairs at the Kennedy Institute, he will be active in the House...
Revolving Boss. Beyond these stumbling blocks lie squabbles over everything from harmonizing taxes on business to a joint policy on monopolies. France refuses to join in a common credit policy toward the Iron Curtain countries, since such limits on her freedom would cut across De Gaulle's aim of wooing Eastern Europe. France has been striving to oust EEC Commission President Walter Hallstein, a persistent foe of De Gaulle's narrow nationalist design for Europe. With the present nine-man EEC commission shortly due to be consolidated with the Coal and Steel Community and Euratom into a single...
Died. James D. Norris, 59, sports promoter and onetime Mr. Big of boxing; following a heart attack; in Chicago. The son of a Chicago millionaire, Norris won notoriety in the late 1940s and '50s as the boss of the Internation al Boxing Club, through which he and Hoodlum Frankie Carbo held a monopoly on virtually all major fights until 1959, when the U.S. Supreme Court broke their hold. Norris faded from view, quietly operating his vast grain, railroad, real estate and cattle interests plus the Spring Hill Farm stables, Chicago Black Hawks hockey team, and stadiums in Chicago...