Word: bossing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Just how wrong he could be, the pugnacious, taciturn boss of the Teamsters Union learned last week when the iron gates of the federal penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pa., swung shut on him. Jimmy Hoffa was in on an eight-year sentence, and could be rapped with an additional five-year term if the courts reject his appeal from a conviction for fraud and conspiracy. Said he: "It's a very unhappy day in my life...
...initiated a round-the-clock police court to speed justice for minor offenders and won Negro support by padlocking dives in "the jungle" of North Philadelphia. Previously backed by the Americans for Democratic Action despite his party switch, Specter also has the wholehearted support of Philadelphia's Republican Boss William Meehan...
...being as broad as it was wide. A pastel-colored animated cartoon of contemporary big business, it musically chronicled the rise of a bright-eyed, bushy-tailed rodent, J. Pierpont Finch (Robert Morse), who won the rat race by running just fast enough to keep up with his boss (Rudy Vallee...
...built many things but never a bridge. At 43, he finally gets his chance. His bridge must span a gorge at the end of an unbuilt road in the South American Guianas. Morrison is vexed that neither bridge nor road seems to go anywhere. "Never mind," says his American boss. "Just build a bridge...
Equally savage has been the rout of its top leadership. Seven members of Mrs. Gandhi's cabinet at the Center have been defeated. Among them is S.K. Patil, the tough political boss of Bombay and a member of the "Syndicate" that had effected, in 1964, the unanimous choice of Lal Bahadur Shastri as Nehru's successor and, in 1966, the election of Mrs. Gandhi as Shastri's successor. The two other leading lights of the "Syndicate," Mr. Kamaraj and Atulya Ghosh of West Bengal, have both been defeated. So have been the Presidents of Congress party organizations in 6 states...