Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vatican. Like the long-forgotten works of other postwar mandarins, her novel berates the crass profit motive in the U.S., speaks of "the grip of money on each face." One episode tells of "Babs," a leggy New York career girl and Fair staffer who marries an Italian-American political boss and goes with him to Sicily, where women have a considerably different role from the one she is accustomed to. The narrator is Gianna, another Fair lady who is fleeing an unhappy past in Palermo. She is shocked to find that the magazine invokes "the phantom of beauty" only...
...statement that echoed the Socialist stand. Even Christian Democrats were gingerly deserting some of the old doctrines. Speaking to a rally of young party members, Kiesinger allowed that "the establishment of good relations with our neighbors to the east is an obvious necessity." And Franz Josef Strauss, the powerful boss of the party's Bavarian branch, publicly backed away from his insistence on West German participation in a NATO nuclear strike force, thus opening the way for a more conciliatory policy toward the East...
Speaking before 80 Communist Party delegations in Sofia, Bulgarian Party Boss Todor Zhivkov declared that "conditions are ripening" for a conference ,of all loyal Leninists to read Red China out of Communist society. Added Brezhnev: "The leaders of China are more and more submitting their policy to narrow nationalist aims...
...firm's line. In October, sales of Ford Motor's middle-priced Mercurys fell 11%, to 33,000, and its Lincolns dropped 18%, to 7,300. For that reason Ford shifted drivers at its Lincoln-Mercury Division: to another job in the company went Lincoln-Mercury Division Boss Paul Lorenz, and in came Vice President E. F. ("Gar") Laux, an aggressive protege of Iacocca...
Died. Edward J. Meeman, 77, editor from 1931 to 1962 of the Memphis Press-Scimitar, who championed the TVA against private power owners and spent 20 years fighting Memphis Political Boss Edward H. Crump ("May his machine be cast into the junk heap"), finally won the engagement in 1948 when the Press-Scimitar's backing, against Crump's bitter opposition, helped put Estes Kefauver in the Senate; of a heart attack; near Memphis...