Word: boss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moreover, the U.S. tactical formations were made to order for just the sort of Communist hit-and-run attack that occurred, and Air Force Boss McConnell is determined that the Thunderchiefs' misfortune will not be repeated...
...dissidents nominated Jennings to run against Carey. For 14 years Jennings had been executive secretary of the I.U.E.'s New York-New Jersey District 3, which has about 40% of the union membership. He was reluctant to tangle openly with Carey; yet he had long disagreed with his boss's tactics. Said he: "Carey's concept of a trade union is simple: if you differ with him, you're a traitor...
...Greater U.S. involvement has also boosted South Vietnamese morale. Still, no U.S. or South Vietnamese officials were naive enough to believe that the tide had yet turned in the overall battle. Political instability is still rife in Saigon, where last week a brief mutiny threatened Admiral Chung Tan Cang, boss of the South Vietnamese navy, and set the capital aquiver with coup rumors. The mutiny died away, but no sparks are ever totally extinguished in Saigon. And for all the government success on the ground, Hanoi, with its great reserves of manpower and stubbornness, still calls the final shots from...
...nation's biggest school system has a new chief who is the boss by virtue of having taken vigorous charge of the job. New York City, disappointed in two recent experiences with superintendents hired from outside the system, turned six weeks ago to one of its own, making Bernard Eugene Donovan,* 54, acting superintendent. The schools thus got a stocky, ambitious Irishman who is not only a creature of the system but who loves it. "I've been in it for 35 years and I feel a certain affinity for it," he says. "I see great things that...
...area around Shawn's own offices as a Whisper Zone: "a kind of horsehair-stuffing atmosphere of old carpeting, framed New Yorker covers, quiet cubicles and happy-shabby, baked-apple gentility." Within 40 feet of Shawn's office, says Wolfe, everyone whispers in imitation of their sibilant boss. "He always seems to have on about 20 layers of clothes, about three button-up sweaters, four vests, a couple of shirts, two ties, it looks that way, a dark shapeless suit over the whole ensemble, and white cotton socks...