Word: bosses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...victory has been especially sweet for Ronald Reagan because he has not had to share the credit with anyone. Ever since he fired Campaign Manager John Sears last February, Reagan has been his own boss, and who can argue with success? He breezed through most of the primaries, brushing aside his opponents without really seeming to be trying. But as a Republican strategist who backs Reagan says, "It was historical momentum rather than operational depth or skill that won it." When the going gets rough in the months ahead, Reagan will need solid work from a staff that has shown...
...more important, do not get clear directions from the nominee-to-be. When the Sears team was ousted, it was replaced by a triumvirate. Cam- paign Manager William Casey is an able administrator, but, despite his title, he is more a chairman of the board than a workaday boss. He has also not known Reagan very long...
...present low ranking (seventh in the Politburo hierarchy) and his lack of executive experience may rule him out for the top post in an interim government. The most obvious candidate to replace Premier Kosygin is First Deputy Premier Nikolai Tikhonov, 75, who has already assumed many of his boss's functions...
Three Politburo members are excluded as contenders for supreme power because they are not ethnic Russians-an unacknowledged but key qualification for the job of party boss. They are: Vladimir Shcherbitsky, 62, Dinmukhamed Kunayev, 68, and Arvid Pelshe, 81. Others, like Defense Minister Ustinov and Foreign Minister Gromyko, 70, and Party Ideologist Mikhail Suslov, 77, would appear to be disqualified because of their narrow specializations. The youngest member of the Politburo, Leningrad Party Boss Grigori Romanov, 57, may be a contender for power in a few years. For the time being, however, he has no political base in Moscow; citizens...
Usually, however, a film is well laundered before the party boss gets to play movie mogul. One director found himself squabbling with censors when he made a comedy about corruption in the wine industry: in one scene a bad barrel was labeled "48," which happened to be precisely the number of years that had passed since the revolution. Was he perhaps implying that the revolution had gone sour too? Another film maker got into trouble when he included a song called Bring Me a Piece of the Moon-during the time that Americans had landed there and the Russians...