Word: boss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flare of flashbulbs, Chou's face appeared hard and unyielding. Significantly, he was greeted by only half of Russia's new diarchy, an equally sour-faced Premier Aleksei Kosygin. There were no bear hugs for Chou, though Kosygin did bring a bouquet of flowers. Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev stayed home, possibly to show that Russia was not overeager and to keep the visit a formal matter of governments, not an ideological meeting of parties...
...Rumania is delighted both with Khrushchev's fall and the prospect of keeping Red China within the pale of the Communist movement. Nikita was threatening to make things hot for independent-minded Rumanian Boss Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, whose refusal to turn his oil-rich nation into a "gas station" for Comecon threw Khrushchev's bloc-wide economic scheme out of kilter...
Certainly he and Smith possess organizational talent; and both have learned something about New York's own style of polyglot politics in the campaign. They would have allies too in a bid for control. Nassau county's leader John English and the ailing Bronx boss Charles Buckley will surely offer their support...
...measure of the result is that last week Mississippi's Judge Cox coolly tried to jail not only U.S. Attorney Robert E. Hauberg in Jackson but also his boss, Acting Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach...
Perfect Missile. A stern word from a boss started the whole Z.D. idea three years ago. At Martin Marietta's plant in Orlando, Fla., a quality control engineer named Philip Crosby had succeeded in cutting defects on Pershing missiles to half the acceptable level-but his boss complained that that was still too high. Incensed at first, Crosby soon began to agree: "If management tolerates a low standard, people work to that standard. Well, why not a no-defects job?" He persuaded workers in his department to sign no-defects pledges, soon surprised the Army by delivering a Pershing...