Word: boss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Geneva Accords" and establishment of an independent Viet Nam, "sovereign and free of all foreign intervention." Brezhnev, softening from his rigid position of the previous day, proposed another session on politics at the end of De Gaulle's twelve-day trip. He had, said the portly party boss, been thinking about De Gaulle's speech of the day before, and wanted to talk about Europe again...
...agreements. Meanwhile, Danish agricultural experts toured the backwoods of Czechoslovakia; Norwegian Mayor Brynjulf Bull concluded a scientific agreement in Budapest; and a delegation of Polish parliamentarians arrived in Brussels to have a look at the Common Market. Poland's Foreign Minister Adam Rapacki turned up in Stockholm; Hungarian Boss János Kádár talked to Tito in Bled; the Shah of Iran left Rumania for an eight-day state visit to Yugoslavia. No sooner had Rumanian Postal Minister Mihai Balanescu arrived in Paris to inspect French telecommunications than Kentucky Governor Ed Breathitt popped...
Canny Blend. It is theoretically conceivable that any new boss at Berkeley might have restored some measure of order to the campus. But Heyns unquestionably brought to the task a canny and successful blend of firmness and an open mind. He first exerted his authority symbolically by moving into the former president's mansion on campus, long vacant and long shunned by his predecessors. Then he displayed it in practice by acquiring as much freedom from President Kerr, who operates out of Berkeley, as that enjoyed by chancellors of the university's eight other campuses. That achieved, Heyns...
Alloway, credited with coining the term pop, picked the late Jackson Pollock, the late David Smith, Joseph Cornell, maker of bric-a-brac-packed boxes, Ernest Trova, who endlessly repeats images of falling men, and Roy Lichtenstein. His choice was promptly amended by his boss, Guggenheim Director Thomas Messer, who dropped Lichtenstein and Pollock and chose mostly sculpture. Displeased, the Smithsonian then turned the whole deal over to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's associate curator, Henry Geldzahler, 30. Last week Alloway resigned from the Guggenheim...
...mission conducts conferences in the offices of labor unions and such firms as Ford and Chrysler, where labor leaders and executives meet to talk about their job problems and dis cuss theoretical examples with down-to-earth application. A typical moral issue that they are asked to solve: Your boss has been exaggerating the results of your department. During his vacation, you have to file his reports. If you tell the truth, he's on the spot; if you don't, you become an accomplice in a dangerous fraud. What...