Word: boss
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Upping the Ante. It was the first test for the Air Cav's new boss, Major General John Norton, 48, who relieved Harry W. O. Kinnard early this month. Norton, a veteran of North Africa, Sicily and Normandy in World War II, swiftly upped the ante by sending in three battalions, then kept tight contact with the enemy despite drenching thunderstorms and frantic Red attempts to flee. By the time the Viet Cong broke contact, 122 of them were dead in the elephant grass, another four were prisoners, and 17 weapons had been seized...
...spokesman blandly denied that such a letter had been circulated, there was little doubt of its existence. Its corrosive contents fit perfectly with the nationalistic attitudes of Rumania's Nicolae Ceausescu, whose stinging anti-Soviet speech only a week earlier had triggered a flying visit from Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev...
...Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej. There are still 22 Russian divisions in East Germany; certainly some could be called back, but to withdraw all of them suddenly would probably cause the regime of Walter Ulbricht to collapse. Poland still has three Soviet divisions, but the Russians remain unobtrusive, and Polish Party Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka paranoically fears that a Russian pullback would encourage German encroachment on the Oder-Neisse line. Only Hungary's Janos Kadar could profit from the removal of the four or five Russian divisions still in his country: they serve as a constant reminder of Moscow's brutal...
Ruined Mothers. Helen Vlachos was born to the business. Her father, George, founded Kathimerini, which she joined at the age of 16. "People say it is not easier if your father is the boss," she says bluntly. "That's not true. It is easier." She attended the Berlin Olympics of 1936, interviewed Mussolini in Libya, covered "all the earthquakes in Greece." She worked as a nurse during World War II when the Nazis took over the paper; after the war, she started her column, which soon became one of the most popular in Greece. A conservative who likes...
...Chevrolet division has been in trouble for some time, and last July G.M. turned it over to ex-Pontiac Boss Elliott ("Pete") Estes for some quick fixes. Chevy's styling was a bit bulgy, and its workmanship gave rise to widespread customer complaints about ill-fitting upholstery, rattling doors and leaking windows. Estes visited every one of Chevy's assembly plants, test-drove cars straight off the assembly line, and ordered repairs on the spot...