Word: boss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...secretary mounted the stage of the hospital's movie theater to announce: "The operation was a complete success." By 11 a.m. the President was fully awake. Summoning Moyers, he asked: "Bill, how are you?" Moyers, swathed in a surgical gown, brought good news. His first words to the boss: "The stock market opened strong today, Mr. President...
...spirited attempt to take over the governorship from Democrat Albertis S. Harrison Jr., who is barred by state law from succeeding himself. Though Helton's official opponent is Lieutenant Governor Mills E. Godwin Jr., 50, his most potent adversary is U.S. Senator Harry F. Byrd, 78, the aged boss and personification of Virginia politics...
...Kremlin is admitting that Russia's economic engine is painfully sputtering. Industrial growth and national income have both lost momentum since the early 1950s, now lag behind that of the U.S. Moreover, after a bumper crop in 1964, Soviet agriculture this year is again in trouble. Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, in his speech following Kosygin's, felt compelled to assure the Central Committee that "everything has been done to assure normal supply of bread production...
...South's most bitter racial disputes. In 1955, white Catholics refused to attend a Louisiana church to which a Negro priest had been assigned. Three years ago, when the late Archbishop Joseph Francis Rummel ordered parochial schools integrated, Catholics protested so vehemently that three, including Political Boss Leander Perez, were excommunicated. One of the three, Mrs. Bernard J. Gaillot, last week called Bishop Perry's appointment "another reason why God will destroy the Vatican...
Anyway, who are reporters to complain about L.B.J.? "He has no peer as an editor," declared Moyers, who discovered in his boss a talent that even Presidential Aide Jack Valenti did not cite in his famous catalogue of L.B.J.'s virtues. "He's a very demanding and precise editor. He has the ability to reduce ten pages...