Word: boss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bill's smooth passage went to the President, who persuaded Congress that he was asking only what he absolutely needed; previous Administrations often raised congressional hackles by padding foreign aid in anticipation of cutbacks. More credit went to AID Administrator David E. Bell, generally recognized as the best boss that foreign aid has had. Still more went to Congressman Thomas E. ("Doc") Morgan, 58, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and a man with the comforting way of a small-town doctor-which is what...
...their own speeches, P.K.I, officials pressed Sukarno for elections at the village level, confident that they could win control of Java, which represents 70% of Indonesia's 104 million population. Party Boss D. N. Aidit suggested that Indonesia's 412,000-man armed forces be "supervised" by politically oriented NASAKOM ("guided democracy") cadres, which the P.K.I. believes it could dominate. That seemed all right with Sukarno. "Go ahead," he urged the P.K.I. "Go onward and never retreat...
...great backer of education and a regent at the University of California. Most of all, in the business life that has made possible all else that he has done, Simon is alternately a disrupting influence and a force for growth, a boardroom tyrant and a tolerant boss. Says Norman Cousins, editor of the Simon-owned Saturday Review: "There's no petty consistency...
...Corp. might set an unrealistic fee for its use (current expectation: $6,500 per hour). And for another thing, the networks feel they are already paying an exorbitant amount for the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. landlines that now link them to their affiliated stations in the U.S. So ABC Boss Leonard Goldenson has proposed a solution: a domestic version of the Early Bird, which would hover over the U.S., could beam its signals directly to network stations, thus making an end run around the A.T. & T. facilities...
...John) Heinz III. The son, grandson and great-grandson of Heinz presidents, Jack Heinz, 27, may someday run the company-but that future is by no means assured. Widespread public ownership of companies that once were family-owned has ruled out most automatic successions, and the sons of corporate bosses have to work hard and compete with a lot of bright young men if they hope to win their fathers' posts. Fortunately for U.S. business, many sons are showing not only that they can guide companies to bigger growth and better profits, but that they can often do better...