Word: bossed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Goddammit," roared Chicago's Democratic Mayor Richard Daley, "they're kicking the hell out of us!" The Windy City's plain-spoken boss was referring not to Republicans, but to underprivileged citizens who might ordinarily be among his most loyal supporters were it not for a delayed time bomb built into the $2.3 billion war on poverty that has repeatedly brought the Democratic program into conflict with big-city Democratic machines...
...week after the savage Watts riots last August, California's Governor Pat Brown appointed a commission to find the reasons for the six-day uprising. The commission, headed by tough-minded John McCone, 63, former boss of the Central Intelligence Agency, spent 100 days at its task, interviewed hundreds of people ranging all the way from the Negro whose arrest for drunken driving touched off the holocaust to Brown himself. Last week the commission released its findings and no-nonsense recommendations* with a sober warning that unless immediate action is taken, the August riots "may seem by comparison...
...flurry of rumors last week, Indonesian Communist Boss D. N. Aidit was variously reported as in prison, at large, killed in battle, and killed trying to escape prison...
...Party Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka's regime is another story. After a few years of relative friendliness in the mid-'50s, Gomulka has become increasingly hostile, now angrily denounces the U.S. for "barbarous bombing raids" on North Viet Nam. He also accused the U.S. of seeking to give West Germans an independent nuclear strike force. About the only subject that Gronouski is likely to find Gomulka & Co. agreeable on is food. The U.S. has sold more than $525 million in foodstuff to Poland since 1957; the Poles need more, and it will be up to Gronouski to negotiate...
After the weekly Cabinet meeting, French Premier Georges Pompidou, 54, took over as le boss of the new Haul Comité pour la Défense et l'Expansion de la Langue Française, formed to ferret out all the linguistic "degradation and corruption" of franglais in the land where tons les types enjoy le shopping at le drugstore, having a whisky-soda or gin and tonic served by le barman while they watch the playboys with sex appeal in smokings (tuxes) stroll by on their way to le dancing or le striptease. Ah, M. Pompidou...