Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Norman Eric Kirk, 51, thunder-voiced politician who ended the New Zealand Labor Party's twelve-year exile from power and became Prime Minister after a 1972 electoral sweep; of a heart attack; in Wellington. A onetime manual laborer...
...they have influence in such important executive decisions as where to put a new plant?" Although such views irritate militant Swedish unionists, Gyllenhammar's easy informality (he addresses workers with the familiar du, and they do likewise) and unpretentious style are the earmarks of a natural politician. Some Swedish pols have touted him as a potential leader of the liberal Folkpartiet...
...handsome, intellectual Moses got on famously with the raspy-voiced, cigar-chomping Smith, a ward politician who also had a vision of the public good...
...until 1968 that Governor Nelson Rockefeller, through a combination of power and guile, finally got rid of the by then 80-year-old Moses. Rockefeller is also a man who does not take no for an answer, as well as a politician singularly immune to pressure from banks and labor unions...
...zenith, during the 1950s, Moses concurrently held twelve state and city jobs. His spending budget was $213 million a year. Any politician who blocked him was likely to be deluged with calls from city power brokers like Jack Straus of Macy's, Banker David Rockefeller, Building Trades Union Chief Peter J. Brennan...