Word: bossed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Distinguished Flying Cross. Today U.S. military officials estimate that, although the Viet Cong has doubled its antiaircraft effort in the past year, the troop-carrying choppers are suffering 25% fewer hits than before the Hueys arrived on the Viet Nam scene. "The Hueys," says General Paul Harkins, the capable boss of the 14,000 U.S. advisers in South Viet Nam, "are the most essential unit in my command...
Taller But Sadder. Hoping to capitalize on the divisions in non-Communist ranks, Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti. whose Reds were the biggest gainers in last month's balloting (winning 25% of the vote), warned that "the first phase of an extremely acute and bitter" political era had opened, and demanded that Reds be brought into the Cabinet. Nenni, under heavy pressure from his onetime Red allies to push the center-left coalition further left, threatened to do just that. In advance of a crucial Socialist Party congress in July, Nenni declared that he would demand "more advanced positions...
Broad-shouldered Mustafa Barzani, 60, has spent most of his adult life fighting for independence. After World War II, with Russian backing, Barzani became military boss of the Soviet-inspired Kurdish People's Republic in Iran and, when it collapsed, was for twelve years in exile in the Soviet Union. The younger brother of the ruling sheik of the Barzan tribe, Barzani denies he is a Communist, but echoes other Kurdish leaders who say that if war breaks out again the Kurds will "accept all the help we can get from anyone"-Russians included...
...another up in print but are friends anyway-Murray Kempton, onetime New York Post columnist who now ventilates his views in the left-wing New Republic, and William F. Buckley Jr.. editor of the right-wing National Review. After King Features Syndicate sacked Pegler last summer for calling Boss William Randolph Hearst Jr. a "spoiled brat," the two set up the dinner and invited some of the irascible columnist's friends and former colleagues "to tell Peg that we like...
...honored tradition at the Times. Sulzberger himself married the daughter of Publisher Adolph S. Ochs, and when Dryfoos took over the top spot, told him: "I was sensible enough to marry the boss's daughter, and you were...