Word: boss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ride on the old Orient Express. While a raging blizzard shut down the airports of Eastern Europe, the three top men of Russia sped by train from Moscow across the white wastes to the Masu rian Lake district of Poland 600 miles away. There, in a hunting lodge, Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, Premier Aleksei Kosygin and President Nikolai Podgorny huddled with Polish Party Chief Wladyslaw Gomulka. Then it was all aboard again for a visit by the Russians to East German Party Boss Walter Ulbricht before heading back home. The bland communiques issued at each stop hardly illuminated what pressing...
...Kremlin express may have had yet another goal in its Polish stop: to head off the ousting of Gomulka that was rumored imminent. His most likely replacement is Edward Giereck, a Politburo member in his mid-50s who was once a miner and is now party boss of the big Katowice industrial region of Poland...
After ignoring the pile of matrimonial wreckage for more than a decade, the Communists are now awakening to its dark demographic consequences. Most Eastern European governments have passed laws making it harder to get a divorce, and most now prohibit abortion except in unusual circumstances. In Rumania, where Party Boss Nicolae Ceausescu has declared war on "levity toward the family," both doctor and patient in an abortion case get stiff prison terms. The government makes it so hard to buy contraceptives that birth control pills have become an appreciated currency for tipping-even for those who get hold of only...
...shake awake a slumbering, 121-year-old railroad that had stumbled onto hard times. Falling earnings and a high debt had led the road's conservative management to cut back on new spending; the Pennsy had hardly enough modern equipment to remain competitive. The new boss changed all that by allocating huge funds ($577 million in the last three years alone) for new equipment and by branching out into fields other than railroading. His other goal was to push through the merger with the New York Central, something that had been discussed and contemplated for years...
...Bogarde's pretty code crackers (Susannah York) warms to her maniacal boss and entices him into...