Word: boss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kumaraswami Kamaraj Nadar, 63, barrel-chested boss of Madras, who as president of the Congress Party dreamed up the consensus scheme as a means of installing Shastri after Nehru's death. But Kamaraj speaks only Tamil, and even if Shastri were to vanish, would be content to remain only a kingmaker and cash collector for the party. Last week Kamaraj was touring his home state, preceded by an elephant with bells on its toes, to celebrate his birthday. In lieu of gifts he collected $350,000 for the party coffers...
...history of that office. But the story is much more than the week's narrative. It offers a considered assessment of the President's role as Commander in Chief of a nation at de facto war, as a get-things-done domestic leader, and as the boss of his Administration. Beyond this, it presents a sensitive reading on how the people of the country feel about President Johnson and his leadership. For this part of the story, TIME reporters across the country interviewed men and women in all pursuits-businessmen, laborers, farmers, professional men, housewives-not merely polling...
...part, Soviet Communism in the 1960s has mellowed considerably as its leaders have discovered that goulash is more palatable than gunpowder. Under Khrushchev and his successors, Premier Aleksei Kosygin and Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, the old, unbending creed of unconditional war against capitalism has yielded to the cautious dialogue of coexistence. It has had to, for the workers of the industrialized world today are not likely to be inveigled into violent assault on social systems that have given them so large a measure of prosperity...
...nation's airline executives felt a little like the man who asked the boss for a raise and wound up being asked to take a cut. They recently petitioned the Civil Aeronautics Board for a 50?-per-ticket increase in first-class fares, hoping that the raise would make up for some of the $17 million in annual excess-baggage charges that will begin to diminish this week when more generous baggage allowances go into effect.* The CAB not only turned down the proposal, but told the lines that they are in an excellent position now to reduce fares...
...into the jet-black yonder. Moreover, while the industry is still amortizing its present jet fleet, it has also ordered 480 new planes that will cost $2.4 billion. To the airline executives, cruising between past expense and future commitments, the present profits did not seem overly lavish-and the boss appeared somewhat unfair...