Word: bossed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Administration viewed the bill as a pragmatic token of encouragement to the increasingly self-assertive, outward-looking nations within the once monolithic Communist bloc. And while Methodist Mills airily dismissed the need for such a gesture, a dramatic "independence" speech by Rumanian Boss Nicolae Ceausescu pointedly underlined the urgency behind a scheduled fence-mending mission to Bucharest by Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev (see THE WORLD...
...tingle was caused by a four-hour speech from Party Boss Nicolae Ceausescu on the occasion of the 45th anniversary of Rumania's Communist Party. Totally unexpected and unheralded, it was a stinging attack on the Soviet Union that ran the gamut from Lenin through the Stalin era to the current Russian dispute with Red China. Tucked in, as pungently as the garlic in a Rumanian mititei sausage, was the expected plug for "nationalistic Communism" that Ceausescu has made popular in Eastern Europe...
Secret Huddle. Scarcely had the speech clattered through the Kremlin telex machines when Russia's Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev was airborne for a visit to Bucharest. For three days he huddled with Ceausescu in secret talks. Beyond the expectable communiqué concerning "subjects of mutual interest," outsiders could only guess at the real substance of the conversations. After all, there were plenty of signs that Rumania was taking an active role in European Communist affairs-a role that could only annoy Moscow. Premier Ion Gheorghe Maurer was in Geneva ostensibly for a "cure"-but possibly in some connection with...
Just eleven months ago, Rocker Jordan Christopher, 25, had to stand up there and howl with the rest of the Wild Ones. But ever since he married the boss, Sybil Burton Christopher, 37, Jordan has been privileged to sit around her Manhattan bedlam, Arthur, and admire the plangent din. Last week the Wild Ones were wilder than usual as the ridiculously successful joint celebrated its first anniversary. Jordan and Sybil sliced into a birthday cake to the cheers of such music lovers as Leonard Bernstein and Disk Jockey Murray the K, who kept trying to discuss esthetics above the entertainment...
...President, you have been my boss for a number of years, and you always tell me you want to lose weight, and yet you never do very much to help yourself. Now I am going to be your boss for a change. Eat what I put in front of you and don't ask for any more and don't complain. Zephyr." Staring direly at Lady Bird, L.B.J. declared: "Now if arrogance of power is anywhere, it's in your kitchen...