Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Alvin Dark took over as Oakland's manager this spring, he said he had a model for the job. It was not John McGraw, Miller Huggins, Casey Stengel, or any other successful field boss. "The past few years," announced Dark with a straight face, "I've tried to think of how Jesus Christ would handle ballplayers...
...still the undisputed boss of the nation's last surviving big political machine, but the machine itself is slowly deteriorating. The corruption that has long been one of its largely hidden ingredients is now being exposed and examined under the twin spotlights of sophisticated investigative reporting and relentless legal prosecution. In addition, charges of police brutality, much of it committed against blacks and documented in detail by the Chicago Tribune last fall, have contributed to the growing disaffection of the usually pro-Daley black voters, who make up about 30% of the electorate. With the help of a forceful...
Stump Speeches. For nearly two months, political leaders had turned from Italy's problems-social unrest, a 14.3% annual rate of inflation, and a possible $12 billion balance of payments deficit-while they stumped the country making fiery speeches for or against divorce. Former Premier Amintore Fanfani, boss of the Christian Democratic Party, led the fight for repeal, pleading with voters to save the "integrity of the family and future of our children." Communist Party Chief Enrico Berlinguer countered that divorce was "just and unexpendable...
...twelve. Vesco may have thought his expensive toy was safe, but one of his more determined creditors reckoned otherwise. In what may turn out to be one of the most bizarre asset-recovery schemes on record, Alwyn Eisenhauer, Vesco's former pilot, settled a beef against his old boss simply by talking his way aboard the plane, then flying it home...
...tough, sleeves-up crime fighter. So, at first, Lindenbaum would prepare the necessary papers, which Mitchell would hurriedly sign. After a while, Lindenbaum took to signing Mitchell's initials on the tap requests when Mitchell was out of town -often without even discussing the request with his boss on the telephone...