Word: boss
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...Staff of the U.S. Seventh Army in Germany in 1957, proved so capable an administrator that in two years he was picked for the high-powered job of Chief of Staff of NATO's Central Army Group in West Germany. In 1960 he returned to the U.S. as boss of his alma mater, the Staff College at Leavenworth. Three years later, Johnson was ordered to the Pentagon, became deputy chief of staff for military operations, a post in which he helped pave the way for the buildup...
Forest of Banners. What bothered Mobutu was the dangerous direction in which the struggle had been leading the nation. Police Boss Victor Nendaka had begun banning anti-Kasavubu newspapers and mounting a hate-campaign that seemed to aim toward Tshombe's arrest. Worse, to gain leftist support, Kasavubu had restored relations with the Peking-oriented Brazzaville Congo across the river, was cozying up to Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, and had promised to kick out the white mercenary troops that were the muscle of Mobutu's Congolese army...
...responsibility at the financially troubled institution since Chancellor Edward Litchfield resigned last year. Equally prestigious, from the retired executive's viewpoint, is an appointment to a powerful (if nonpaying) position in public service. One such plum was won in October by Edwin M. Clark, 65, the recently retired boss of Southwestern Bell Telephone, who was picked to head St. Louis' industrial-development drive...
...most companies, massive reorganization, a complete change of direction and a tough new boss at the top almost invariably mean that a lot of people lose their jobs. In the past year, At lanta's Scripto Inc., the world's third largest maker of writing instruments (1964 sales: $25 million), has under gone all three changes - without the firing of a single key executive. The man who did the trick is Scripto's new president, Carl N. Singer, 48, a ruddy-faced Bostonian who has revitalized once ailing Scripto since he went South in 1964. Last week...
...Corp., world's largest maker of truck trailers (1964 sales: $313 million) founded by his father in 1918, who in 1953 squeezed his brother out as chairman and staved off a muchpublicized proxy raid with the aid of a $1,500,000 stock-purchase loan from then Teamster Boss Dave Beck, five years later found himself indicted along with Beck for repaying the favor with a $200,000 loan of his own (illegal under the Taft-Hartley Act), was eventually acquitted, but not before a group of dissident directors had forced him out of office; of a stroke...