Word: boss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unemployment, practically no crime, few old people. It does have one big boss: the U.S. Government, which largely owns the city and is responsible for most of its payroll. Last week the residents of Los Alamos prepared for the community's greatest upheaval since it was founded in 1942 for the purpose of designing and producing the world's first atomic bombs. Beginning next month, the Atomic Energy Commission will help Los Alamos toward independence by selling off $39 million worth of Government-owned homes, apartments, stores and vacant tracts of land...
...procedure is clearly the end for as many as ten council hangers-on, including David McDonald, the former boss of the steelworkers, and James Carey, former chief of the electrical workers - both of whom have stayed on the council despite defeats in union elections. Facing up to his prospects, former Drama Student McDonald spoke for many of labor's aging leaders: "Act III, Scene 3. Curtain...
...judge had threatened to "get" the defendant. A U.S. marshal pranced about a hotel dressed in nothing but a woman's brassière and panties. It was fantastic, that is, until one knew the author of the plot, who is a pretty fantastic fellow himself: Teamster Boss James Riddle Hoffa...
...Warsaw, he grew up on the bleakest Lower East Side, earned his tuition through the College of the City of New York and plunged into Brooklyn ward politics, his entree to a 20-year city hall career. A canny, candid financial expert, Beame spoke with authority in condemning longtime Boss Bob Wagner's feckless financing practices, thus shrewdly disassociated himself from the tired Democratic regime of which he was a part...
Texas-born "Buzz" Busby, 41, ranked lower than Goodwin in the White House hierarchy, but was personally closer to the boss, whom he had served since 1948. In addition to his job as Cabinet Secretary, he wrote some press releases and shorter presidential statements, served as deputy to McGeorge Bundy and acted as a liaison man with the intellectual world. With Walter Jenkins and George Reedy gone, Busby was the last of Johnson's old personal guard. Buzz plans to return to his management-consulting business to take care of his three growing children...