Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sandy's Jazz Revival in Beverly is featuring the "boss of the blues singers" Big Joe Turner and his Kansas City Band featuring dummer Jo Jones, through...
...this taping have been kept in strictest secrecy by Frost. According to those who have seen the taping, Nixon's responses provide a dramatic high point in the interviews. Frost feels they add a memorable moment to Nixon's long political life. A Nixon aide, however, thinks "the boss" came off well, though the experience was "draining." If by any chance Nixon comes off too well?in terms of either his answers or his dramatic appeal?there will certainly be Watergate authorities more than eager to set his record straight...
When the tapings were over, Frost's people were confident, perhaps overconfident, that their boss had scored a journalistic as well as a financial triumph. But Nixon's inner circle was just as certain that its man, even with his battering on Watergate (or perhaps because of it), had done much to raise his standing with the public. The show's viewers, said one Nixon friend, "should be sympathetic. It gives a much better understanding of what he thought. Those who like to make judgments will be better informed on their judgments...
...position on Arab-Israeli peace negotiations. Once the London talks were finished, Carter planned to do some direct Middle East business on the way home. In Geneva, he was due to meet Syrian President Hafez Assad, fresh from five days of talks in Moscow with Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, another fellow who is anxious to play an important role in the Arab-Israeli peace negotiations...
...platform; later a potentially dangerous gas buildup around the wellhead forced them to retreat temporarily. Using brass tools to avoid striking sparks that could ignite the gas, the Americans made four unsuccessful attempts to shut off the flow. At week's end-bolstered by the arrival of their boss, famed oilwell troubleshooter Paul ("Red") Adair-they finally capped the well with the aid of new heavy-duty valves flown in from California...