Word: boss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bread from a 10% surcharge on each worker's hourly wage, plus his own earnings as a laborer. Unlike his predecessor at Cutchogue, whose wife held the "liquor concession" and charged $1 for a pint of cheap, lemon-flavored wine (local price: 51¢), Isaiah is considered a pretty fair boss...
...post of party propaganda boss has been purged three times, that of the army chief of staff twice...
...ominous days last week, it looked as though the Soviet army was about to invade Czechoslovakia and smash the reforming regime of Party Boss Alexander Dubček. Out of War saw crackled the news that a column of Russian troops was moving from the Polish city of Cracow toward the Czechoslovak border, and Western military attachés and diplomats were suddenly forbidden to travel outside the capital. Another Soviet force was reported heading from Dresden in East Germany toward Czechoslovakia, whose swift-paced "democratization" has lately alarmed Moscow and hard-lining members of the Eastern bloc...
...hand, the Soviet Union was pressuring him to slow down his reforms; Pravda spoke ominously of "subversive activities, antipopular forces, anti-Communist hysteria and anarchy" in Czechoslovakia. To soothe the Russians, Dubček, accompanied by Premier Oldrich Cernik, flew to Moscow for talks with Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev. Even as they went, however, increasingly vocal liberals in Czechoslovakia were demanding nothing less than full democracy...
Starting this summer, Reston will replace Turner Catledge, 67, as executive editor. That means becoming boss of the entire news operation, daily and Sunday. Catledge, meanwhile, becomes a vice president and director and will involve himself in "broad areas of corporate policy." Not since 1942, when he served briefly as an assistant to then publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger, has Reston been stationed in New York...