Word: boss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Sukarno finally announced the new Cabinet - and it was clear that Suharto had once again had his way. The streamlined model had 29 members, and Suharto was not only chair man of its powerful, five-man inner presidium, but also army boss and defense minister. Malik was in the presidium, together with the third member of the reigning triumvirate, Sultan Hamengku Buwono IX of Jogjakarta. Suharto's quiet triumph had not been with out its compromises. Two of Sukarno's most ineffectual and most obsequious plin-plan (yes) men had been dropped from the presidium...
...also decided to speak his mind about the boss. In a round of speeches, Harel explained that he was "a worried citizen" concerned about Eshkol's "in decisive leadership." To an audience of students at Jerusalem's Hebrew University, he hinted, "Things are really much more serious than I can explain...
Behind Harel's attacks, Mapai Party spokesmen thought they saw the hand of his old boss, David Ben-Gurion, who last year broke with Eshkol and formed the opposition Rafi Party. Gleeful Rafi men expected to pick up some support from disenchanted Mapai members and hoped eventually to unseat Eshkol. Last week they were spreading rumors that Mapai intended to replace Eshkol with either Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir or former Foreign Minister Golda Meir...
SLAC's director, Stanford Physicist Wolfgang Panofsky, 47, a refugee from Nazi Germany, grants that he is unable to predict what applications-if any-its discoveries will have, and he frankly admits that he is the proud boss of "the world's largest impractical machine...
...virtually vanished from sight, dealing with TWA's officers by phone, often in the dead of night, or through lawyers, or sometimes not at all. Carter Burgess, an Assistant Secretary of Defense whom Hughes picked as president a year after Damon's death, never saw his boss. Once, Hughes summoned him cross-country to a Las Vegas conference but left him all night in a hotel room waiting for a phone call. Burgess quit after eleven months of frustration...