Word: boss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into the lower echelons of the State Department for advice as Jack Kennedy often did, Johnson replied, "Hell, I go to Dean Rusk. He's my Secretary of State." Bundy, a Bostonian whose occasionally astringent manner has chilled more than a few acquaintances, still unnerves his Texas-bred boss a bit-he's just so-o-o Eastern. But he remains Lyndon's key White House man on foreign developments...
Despite his high standing with the boss, Gordon decided several months ago that he wanted out. Last winter he sighed to a friend: "How many budgets can you do?" And last week the White House announced that Gordon, 48, would step down June 1 to become vice president of the Brookings Institution, a research organization...
...wisdom of building in brick. Nikita Khrushchev for years had huffed and puffed in favor of prefabricated concrete slabs, relegating the lowly brick to minor status in the nation's crash housing program. But last week, when the new economic plans of Premier Aleksei Kosygin and Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev were disclosed, the brick was back in the planners' priorities. That alone would not keep the wolf from the door, but some of the other decisions announced would certainly help...
...framework of archy's little satire is altered by the same slight over-acting of the Boss (Belden Crane Johnson), the journalist who keeps archy supplied with typing paper and apple peelings. He delivers his story not in the style of the unperturbed old hack, calling 'em as he sees 'em, but with dramatic pauses and grimaces of amazement. He most clearly regards a literate cockroach as a big deal; an obvious, flat point of view...
...introducing similar stock options to Investors Planning, Cornfeld expects to give the U.S. fund enough fresh thrust to expand it from a regional mid-Atlantic fund into a nationwide operation. Investors Planning will keep its name and its management, which is headed by Cornfeld's old boss, Walter Benedick, 67. Benedick is remarkably happy about the whole deal. "We weren't interested in just anyone taking over," he says. "Cornfeld grew up with our philosophy...