Word: boss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most powerful of the corps commanders is Lieut. General Nguyen Chanh Thi, 40, tough boss of the I Corps. A sound tactician, charismatic speaker and careful planner, Thi is the one man in the Directory thought to covet Ky's job. Dapper and mustachioed, favoring fierce badges and gaudy scarves, he even resembles Ky. Thi, who was exiled by Diem after an abortive 1960 coup, could probably take the job any time he chose. Among his other assets, he can count his hand-picked head of the nation's 50,000-man police force...
...Teamsters' Boss Jimmy Hoffa has an Achilles' heel, the Justice Department has yet to find it. The department has brought him to trial six times within the past decade. Twice it has won convictions. Yet elusive Jimmy has yet to spend a day in jail as a result. And he still has unchallenged command of the biggest (1,750,000 members), most powerful union...
...longtime crony of Hoffa who acted as a part-time guard at his hotel during the Nashville trial, had been released from jail in Louisiana to spy on Hoffa for the Government. Partin's courtroom testimony that Hoffa had bragged about bribing a Nashville juror, the Teamster boss claimed, was based in effect on "unreasonable search and seizure" and violated the privacy of his deliberations with his lawyer...
...arrive there next week. A professional engineer (University of Illinois, '38), he supervised construction of the first early-warning system in Greenland, the Titan II missile sites and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's vast new Houston headquarters. Dunn will now be McNamara's straw boss in charge of some $1 billion worth of work and 40,000 military and civilian engineers. It will be his toughest assignment...
...Anybody Honest?", then showed that more than a third of the country would lie, cheat and steal at the drop of the other fellow's wallet. ABC's forthcoming People Poll ("starring Garry Moore and You") will examine such profound questions as "Should the husband be the boss in the household?" (Yes, say 57% of a Gallup pre-poll), and "Is the husband boss in your household...