Word: bossed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...statesmanlike action" and a "major step toward eventual peaceful settlement of the long civil war." To show the world their new fraternal affection, Nasser and Feisal warmly embraced at Alexandria's airport and called each other "brother." Feisal, who once muttered curses at Cairo's boss, said he was leaving Egypt "with my heart brimming with love for President Nasser...
Fumbles. That freed Percy to turn his fulltime attention and limitless energies to his campaign against Democratic Governor Otto Kerner, 56, a handsome, likable man who was hand-picked by Chicago's Boss Daley. As Governor since 1960, Kerner has a good record on civil rights, can point to advances in the field of mental health, savings in Illinois' huge public-aid expenditures. But he has fumbled badly in efforts to reform Illinois' archaic tax structure, and not even his fellow Democrats would accuse him of being a dynamic leader. Said onetime Chicago Boss Jake Arvey recently...
...Jittery Boss. Encouraged, Tshombe flew back home, where the rebels of Stanleyville, as if to prove his thesis, had declared a new "Congolese People's Republic." Its President would be Christophe Gbenye, 37, a jittery, opportunistic onetime Congolese police boss who once labored for Leftist Antoine Gizenga, then arrested Gizenga on behalf of Moderate Premier Cyrille...
...Begonia Day, and Steve Canyon Day at the New York World's Fair-and also Art Buchwald Day, so proclaimed by Fair Boss Robert Moses because a) Buchwald was a busboy at the 1939 fair, b) Buchwald was the only reporter who showed up at a 1960 Moses press conference in Rome and well, anyway, Buchwald is syndicated in some 200 papers and who knows what could happen? What did happen is Art took along his father, Joe Buchwald, 71. "You think I want to go?" muttered Joe. "A man in the curtain business should lose money...
Died. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, 74, boss of the U.S. Communist Party since 1961; of a blood clot in the lung artery; in Moscow (see THE WORLD...