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Word: bosse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bert's fate seems sealed, but how badly has his boss been hurt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lance: Going, Going... | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

...smear campaign by his opponents. Rumors of official misconduct had circulated widely in Pakistan while Bhutto was in office. Moreover, there is little reason to believe that General Zia, who was named army chief of staff by Bhutto a year ago, has any grudge against his former boss. The diffident general, who now calls Bhutto "an evil genius" and "a 1977 Machiavelli," seems determined to remain impartial and let the law take its course. Before his arrest, Bhutto predicted "a crisis of jurisprudence" if he should be handcuffed or jailed. Zia insisted: "No person can be above...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAKISTAN: An Evil Genius | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

...posthumous influence. One sign: novels and short stories dealing with forbidden themes are now being clandestinely circulated among friends in manuscript form. One such novel is entitled Ah Hsia, the name of its heroine-a hapless working girl who has been ravished by her factory's party boss. Another underground story, The Hunan River Runs Red, tells of a high-living party official whose son drowns himself out of disgust with his father's profligacy and privileged life. An illicit "yellow book"-Chinese slang for porn-entitled The Heart of a Young Girl graphically details the sexual adventures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: No to Maoism | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

Mary's old boss makes good

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Viewpoint: Lou, Carter, CHiPS | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

DIED. Colonel Jacob M. Arvey, 81, Chicago's Democratic boss in the late 1940s and kingmaker instrumental in Harry Truman's narrow 1948 presidential victory; after a series of heart attacks; in Chicago. The son of poor Russian Jewish immigrants, Arvey rang doorbells for ward politicians as a teen-ager while he worked his way through law school. He became the epitome of the back-room politician, and engineered many a political career, persuading an ex-assistant to the Secretary of the Navy named Adlai Stevenson to run for the governorship of Illinois and a University of Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 5, 1977 | 9/5/1977 | See Source »

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