Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wants to do have not been getting through to the American public. This reorganization is an attempt to make the entire White House more professional in getting those messages across." Gergen's big problem, of course, is that the G.O.P. Convention is only three weeks off, and his boss still leads Challenger Ronald Reagan for the presidential nomination by an extremely narrow margin. At week's end Reagan won Utah's 20 delegates and Ford completed his sweep of Connecticut's 35. According to TIME'S latest reckoning, with 1,130 votes needed...
...tired to read newspaper. I have no time to meet girls. I do everything. I clean the floor, the windows. I do the kitchen work. I wait on tables. But it is O.K. In Hong Kong I never get a chance to save money and become my own boss. It is very good to be your own boss. You get the profits...
...John Sears, a lawyer whose graying hair and developing paunch make him appear older than his 35 years. A Nixon delegate hunter in 1968 who served briefly as a White House aide later, Sears has shrewdly used his old contacts around the nation to help his present boss. Reagan's organization has suffered its share of bloopers. Its initial strategy of knocking Ford out early backfired, and it goofed in Ohio, where delegate slates were filed too late, and in Illinois, where it filed weak delegate slates...
Slowdowns by electricians and plumbers threaten completion on time of various support systems, but none are serious enough to hold up any event. Sophisticated scoring and timing devices, for instance, have yet to be wired, as have the lights bordering the walkways into the stadium. But, says Olympic Park Boss Adrien Berthiaume, "if we have to run this thing like a country fair, then that's what we'll do. The world won't come...
...careers," becoming New York State Democratic Secretary by 1928, when he managed F.D.R.'s successful gubernatorial race. In 1932 Farley steered Roosevelt's drive for the Democratic presidential nomination and his election victory over Herbert Hoover; armed with ample power and patronage as both national Democratic boss and Postmaster General, he masterminded an even bigger win for F.D.R. in 1936 against Alf Landon. After that, Old Pol Farley fell out with the patrician F.D.R. and his zealous New Dealer's, and in 1940 he quit his Cabinet and national party posts, suggesting that F.D.R.'s decision...