Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Peaceniks. Much of the protest to which Johnson responded was of the "please sign this petition" variety. At Columbia University, students collected 300 signatures for a cable to North Viet Nam's Communist Boss Ho Chi Minh...
Chomping on a long black cigar in an amber holder, stubby, silver-haired Leander Perez, segregationist boss of Louisiana's Plaquemines Parish, gave the Senate Judiciary Committee the lowdown on what Negroes are really like. "They are of immoral character," drawled the Democratic politician. Their only interest is "to get welfare checks," he said. "They are a low type of citizenship...
Married. Joseph Curran, 59, boss of the 62,000-member National Maritime Union; and Florence B. Stetler, 47, Florida divorcee and marine-equipment sales executive; both for the second time (his first wife died in 1963); in a civil ceremony; in Brooklyn...
...Economic Council Chairman (since 1963) Dmitry F. Ustinov. Replacing him was onetime State Planner Vladimir Novikov, 58. Ustinov's other post as First Deputy Premier went to a Byelorussian apparatchik, Kirill T. Mazurov, 50. Though Khrushchev's old ideological czar, Leonid Ilyichev, was also bumped aside, Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev laid most emphasis on the agricultural mess...
...intense continuing rivalry for control of the Communist camp was most evident in Russia's and China's at tempts to outdo each other in promises of aid to the Communist Viet Cong. After only a hint from Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev that Moscow might send men to North Viet Nam, Peking came screaming from its corner with promises of its own "volunteers." Brezhnev's Red Square speech, however, was far from an outright pledge of troops, and Peking's promise was just as carefully hedged...