Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nation's income, makes it dangerously vulnerable. The man who gets full responsibility for solving these problems when his official title switches from Premier to Prime Minister this week is Errol Barrow, 46, a stocky, brilliant Negro lawyer who looks and operates like an oldtime American ward boss...
Teeny hoppers and overaged juveniles, surfers and Hell's Angels, high school dropouts and stay-ins alike, pile in by the thousands to writhe to the electronic thunder of the Byrds, the Jefferson Airplane and the New Generation in such clubs as It's Boss (formerly Giro's), The Trip (once the Crescendo) and Pandora's Box. Teen Idols Sonny & Cher invented folk rock there and, at the same time, set off the craze for ruffled bellbottoms. The Strip became the perfect place for flaunting rebellion, for catching the latest underground movie at the Cinematheque...
...contrasted Richard Nixon's shrewd construction of a cross-country network of political allies with George Romney's failure to build a national organization for a presidential drive. Bobby Kennedy's major weakness, the pair pointed out, is not that he is too much of a boss in New York but that he is too little of a leader. He throws his energy into winning "broad popular support," not into "brick-by-brick construction of organizational support." Last week, Evans was in Vietnam. After analyzing the effect of the Manila Conference on Saigon politics, he continued...
...mother-in-law (Helen Hayes) have recently arrived in an Italian town. Their new neighbors are all agog because he keeps the women in separate quarters, so that they can communicate only via notes put in a lowered basket. A convocation of irate gossipmongers, including the clerk's boss, summons the mother-in-law for an explanation...
Died. David Leo Lawrence, 77, longtime Democratic boss of Pennsylvania; following a heart attack; in Pittsburgh (see THE NATION...