Word: boss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...picked Radcliffe Junior Linda McVeigh, 19, to be the first girl managing editor in the student paper's 93-year history. "It's pretty hard for the boys to forget I'm a girl," the Cliffie admitted, "but you must be businesslike." Thoroughly upstaged, her boss, new Crimson President Robert Samuelson, said gracefully: "She has great wit; she is a good choice...
...dusty northern capital of Kaduna, Major Chukwuma Nzeogwu, 29, had been holding night maneuvers for six straight weeks, once even led his troops through a mock invasion of the sprawling white palace of Sir Ahmadu Bello, the Sardauna (Emir) of Sokoto, religious leader of 12.5 million Nigerian Moslems, boss of the nation's ruling political party, and the real power behind the Balewa government. So accustomed had the city become to the sound of night gunfire during the maneuvers that not even the police bothered to investigate when Nzeogwu threw a hand grenade through the palace's front...
Selection Process. Destiny may have ordained Indira for India's biggest post, but it took shrewd politicking by others to get her there. When news of Shastri's death flashed across India, Delhi buzzed with the names of possible successors. There was S. K. Patil, 65, the political boss of Bombay and favorite of India's big businessmen. One might consider Y. B. Chavan, 51, Shastri's Defense Minister, who had won good marks during last fall's war with Pakistan. There was also acting Prime Minister Gulzarilal Nanda, who had held that post once before during the interregnum after...
...125th Street, people refer to it as "my bank," a significant phrase in a neighborhood where most fixed property has always been controlled by whites. Freedom National's chairman is Jackie Robinson, a Negro folk hero who holds his position mostly for his name's sake. Operative boss is President William R. Hudgins, 56, who came to the new bank from a small savings and loan association. Hudgins was born in Virginia but has lived and worked in Harlem for 37 years, and can remember when "the Childs restaurant on 125th Street turned me away because...
...Prime Minister, the number two man in the Northern People's Congress, shrewdly refused to comment on this article. But his boss, Alhaji Sir Ahmadu Bello, the Sardauna of Sokoto, Premier of the North, and President of the Northern People's Congress, denounced the President and proclaimed (not for the first time), "Sooner or later we shall have a showdown...