Word: boss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bondage. Rumania's abrasive brand of independence was launched by the late Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej (TIME, March 26), and both East and West have been closely watching the words of his successor, Rumanian Party Boss Nicolae Ceausescu, to see whether he would try to slip his errant satellite back into more orthodox orbit. Ceausescu (pronounced Chow-shess-coo) delivered a ringing answer last week as delegates from 56 Communist parties around the world gathered in Bucharest for the Ninth Rumanian...
...feat not unlike a clarinet player getting rave notices while playing in Benny Goodman's band. How does Humphrey do it? He is willing to perform any task, no matter how large or how small, that Johnson requests of him, and he is unabashedly devoted to his boss. "I became Vice President be cause he made me Vice President," Humphrey recently told a reporter. "As a matter of fact, I've always had a helping hand from Lyndon Johnson." Hubert feels that "if I can be a friendly adviser, if from time to time I can lift some...
...lone-wolf liberal who was unacceptable to most national party leaders. Casting desperately around for someone else, they were drawn to the able, attractive Governor of Illinois. Stevenson was genuinely reluctant; the night before the national convention in Chicago, he sat up until 2 a.m. in Cook County Boss Jake Arvey's kitchen, suggesting alternative names and insisting that he wanted only to run for re-election as Governor...
When Hungary became the first Communist state to sign an agreement with the Vatican last September, it seemed as though the country's 6,000,000 Roman Catholics had regained some small but significant freedoms. Then Communist Boss János Kádár ordered his security police to get on with enforcing his regime's real policy toward religion: implacable enmity. If proof of that policy were needed, the Budapest Municipal Court has just supplied it with the trial and conviction of 13 priests on transparently flimsy charges of conspiring against the Communist system...
...York two years later, the ex-Mrs. Kaufmann married Lewis S. Rosenstiel, aging, multimillionaire boss of Schenley Industries. Later, the marriage soured. With a huge fortune at stake, the Rosenstiels began fighting in court over his contention that her Mexican divorce was invalid, thus annulling their marriage and with it her claims to his money. In 1964, his lawyer (Roy Cohn) finally beat her lawyer (Louis Nizer) with a trial court decision holding that Mexico lacked jurisdiction over Mrs. Rosenstiel because she was in fact a New York resident when the divorce was granted. As a result, she was still...