Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...played the beautiful Inger Stevens' boss in The Farmer's Daughter...
...yards of synthetic Ban-Lon-a silklike nylon fabric patented by Bancroft Division of Indian Head Inc. His clothes, which sell in the U.S. for $65 to $1,000, are worn by, among others, Christina Ford, Fleur Cowles, Audrey Hepburn, Betty Furness and Marella Agnelli, wife of the Fiat boss...
...kind of public protest that has put Party Chief Alexander Dubček under increasing pressures. Those pressures start, of course, with the Russians. Time and again during the recent demonstrations, the hot-line telephone on Dubček's desk jangled with angry calls from Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, who warned that the Russian army was capable of controlling the streets if Dubček was not. Dubček summoned student leaders to his office and sternly warned that the party would not tolerate any more anti-Soviet dissent. Later, as Prague grew tenser...
...Communists, whatever their feelings about the invasion of Czechoslovakia, managed to turn a profit by it. But for Poland's aging, doctrinaire Party Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka, Russia's tanks and troops performed an invaluable eleventh-hour salvage job. As one who has recently based his career on being Moscow's company man, Gomulka rates especially warm treatment from the Kremlin during times of Communist stress-and the Soviets have never needed him more. As a result, Czechoslovakia has enabled Gomulka to overcome- for the present-the most serious challenge to his leadership in his twelve years...
...Western European Communists were furious. The leaders of French and Italian delegations both rose to announce that their parties intended to travel "our road toward socialism," as Italian Giancarlo Pajetta put it. Rumanian Delegate Chivu Stoica also declined to line up behind Gomulka's thesis. Russian Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev plumped for the Kremlin's long-sought Communist summit, which was postponed indefinitely after the invasion. But it was all too clear that European Communists are in no mood to convene in harmony...