Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Issues, Not Ideologies. Evans, who was elected in the face of Lyndon Johnson's overwhelming victory and a 2-to-l Democratic edge in Washington State registration, believes that "the day of the political boss" is just about over. "More and more people are independent enough, however they register, to vote for the man they think can provide the leadership they need," he says...
...Economics Boss Hamengku Buwono IX, the Sultan of Jogjakarta, flew to Tokyo to make his bid for $100 million in emergency loans and credit, announced that the new regime had decided to rejoin such Sukarno-hated institutions as the United Nations and the International Monetary Fund...
...months his wife and personal cook have been trying to get the boss to watch those between-meal snacks. But sometimes, tattled Deputy White House Press Secretary Robert Fleming, 54, Lyndon Johnson gets sneaky about it. Not long ago, Fleming told a group of labor editors, the President tiptoed into the kitchen late one night to raid the icebox. Just as he was digging into some tapioca pudding, the scraping of his metal spoon against the pan aroused Lady Bird, who must have the ears of an Apache scout. She chewed him out. Unrepentant, the President studied the problem...
...hallmark from Berlin to the Caribbean no longer occur. Instead the Russians seem anxious to avoid direct conflict with the U.S. Still, the Russian rulers have to maintain anti-imperialist face in order to argue convincingly against their Red Chinese ideological rivals. That task fell last week to Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev...
...first time, New York's four-week-old newspaper strike showed signs of a settlement. The printers' boss, Bert Powers, settled with the publishers, and World Journal Tribune President Matt Meyer spoke with unaccustomed optimism. "The typographical union," he said, "did not burden us with restrictive practices and extra manpower that would cripple us before we started. The settlement is expensive in terms of money but not in terms of numbers of men. So far as our composing room is concerned, we can operate reasonably competitively with other papers in New York...