Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even the Communists do not demand an immediate radicalization of Spanish society. Unlike Portugal's hard-lining Stalinist party boss, Alvaro Cunhal, Carrillo claims that he favors a democratic, pluralistic state that would permit basic freedoms. The Communists are in a good position to push their program: they have heavily infiltrated the legal trade union movement, the clandestine comisiones obreras and groups of lawyers, doctors and engineers...
...SAME THEME emerges in the book's longest and best-written story--"The Captain," in which the Michaels narrator, trying to win a job in a publishing company, goes to a dinner party and makes love with his prospective boss's wife. He tantalizes the boss with his own wife (but does not yield her) and concludes with a feat of manhood, screwing his own wife in the back seat of a cab. The narrator gets the job, while the boss finds consolation only in breaking wind at his departing guests...
...present from of government, Plan E--a good government instrument that attempts to separate city administration from politics by hiring a city manager to make up the budget and execute business--in 1939, few would have predicted that it would cause a vacuum of leadership that only a boss like Crane could fill...
...Crane's role in the history books of Cambridge--he doesn't mind going down as a boss. "In school we were always told that a leader is an old-time boss with a college education," he says. "Anyway," he laughs, "my name was on the ballot every two years for 30 years and if they didn't want me they could have always gotten...
OSWALD'S ASSASSIN, Jack Ruby, provides the link to the third crucial element in the conspiracy besides the CIA and Cubans: organized crime. A well-known Dallas underworld figure involved in gambling and prostitution, Ruby began his career working for Jimmy Hoffa, travelled to Cuba with Syndicate boss Meyer Lansky, and was given an interest in a Lansky casino later shut down by the revolution. Ruby seems to have been a mob hit man sent to silence Oswald after a previous attempt failed. Not only did the Lansky Mafia have a fortune invested in Cuban gambling, but Robert Kennedy...