Word: bossed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Struggle. In a sense, it was only the latest round of the notorious fight between New York City's Mayor Robert Wagner and his old foe, Bronx Boss Charles Buckley. What made the battle intriguing to political fight fans far beyond the borders of New York State was the fact that Buckley is an ally of Bobby Kennedy's and backed him for Senator when Wagner was still trying to keep Bobby out of the state-suggesting that the real struggle may be between Kennedy and Wagner over eventual control of New York...
...part, Wagner cried "Boss-ism!" and sulked. Resistance to Erway's nomination began to mount steadily, and by last week even Boss Buckley was backing away. The likely outcome: Erway will be sacrificed by Buckley & Co. to allow Wagner his own choice for majority senate leader, in return for which Wagner will accept Steingut as assembly leader...
...relish the prospect of serving under another South African, Lieut. Colonel Jeremiah Puren, an unpopular officer who has been in charge of the little mercenary air force, and who in six short months has insinuated himself into increasing overall control of the mercenaries. In any case, as mercenary boss, Puren will have to combat not only antipathy among his own men but an increasingly wellarmed, well-trained rebellion. Fully 18 planeloads of arms and ammunition from Algeria, Egypt and Ghana have already passed through the Sudan to the Simbas...
...does Gandar spare his readers a reckoning of the full cost of integration: "It means the dismantling of colour bars in every sphere. It means the likelihood of having a Black family as one's neighbours, a Black man as one's boss. Unthinkable? No doubt. But then, the history of multiracial communities is essentially the story of the reluctant accepting the unthinkable. The case for integration does not rest on the unreal assumption that everyone will live happily ever after. It rests on the plain fact that there is no practical alternative...
...take a pushcart and fill it full of management, I haven't got much to sell. If I fill it with merchandise, I have something to sell." Straus began all over again as a junior buyer, did so well on the way back up that he was made boss 25 years ago-a fact that makes him one of the longest-reigning corporate chiefs...