Word: boss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hastily concluding an "appropriate agreement" to send arms to Hanoi's Ho, Kosygin flew off in his official plane to Peking, where he was greeted at the airport by seven flower girls, eight antiaircraft guns, and Red Chinese Premier Chou Enlai. To top that, Party Boss Mao Tse-tung, who hadn't spoken to a Soviet leader since 1959, was waiting in the sprawling Congress Palace. During a 2½-hour secret session, Kosygin and Mao no doubt talked defense. The New China News Agency even published a photo of them that showed seriousness and mutual dislike...
...Carpet. Though Kosygin had planned to fly home directly from Peking, he suddenly changed his plans and headed for North Korea-a place no Soviet Premier had ever visited before. Despite the short notice, North Korea's Boss Kim II Sung rolled out the Red carpet for his unexpected guest: frenzied crowds waving Soviet flags roared "Mansei! [May you live 10,000 years]" as Kosygin arrived at Pyongyang airport. Kim, a Peking-lining Stalinist who only a month ago rudely rejected an invitation to Moscow, embraced Aleksei warmly. "We consider amity and unity between our two nations most valuable...
...fiery follower lay in a hospital bed last week, Gamal Abdel Nasser scored one of his greatest diplomatic victories by playing it cool. It began with an invitation to East Germany's Red Boss Walter Ulbricht to pay a six-day "friendship visit" to Cairo, beginning Feb. 26. Bonn's reaction was one of noisy panic at this threat to the Hallstein Doctrine, which decrees that any nation giving diplomatic recognition to East Germany must forfeit its ties with West Germany...
...Duce himself followed the pattern when he took up with the beautiful Clara Petacci in place of his legal wife Rachele. It was in Clara's company that Mussolini was shot and hung by the heels by vengeful partisans. Italy's late Communist Party Boss Palmiro Togliatti left his wife to live openly with Comrade Leonilde Jotti; the couple even adopted a daughter. When Togliatti died last summer, Leonilde marched behind the coffin, while Signora Togliatti got lost in the crowd...
...joined up as a Pentagon civilian, headed the Army's blood-plasma and whole-blood programs, and eventually won a lieutenant colonel's leaf. In 1945 he joined Bristol-Myers, a business that had begun to grow arthritic, later became the first non-Bristol to boss the once family-run firm...