Word: boss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ALEKSANDR NIKOLAEVICH SHELEPIN, 46, hard-eyed ex-boss of the secret police, somewhat "sanitized" since Stalin's days, who remains in many ways Russia's top cop. His was the most remarkable of the new promotions, since he leapfrogged over the heads of oldtimers waiting around for membership to become the youngest member of the party Presidium. A persuasive pragmatist, Shelepin talked 350,000 Russian youths into volunteering for work in the virgin lands, served as Nikita's iceman when Khrushchev decided to re-refrigerate the thaw in Soviet art and literature two years-ago. Significantly, Shelepin...
...case was a symptom of what is happening to the once relatively liberal regime of Party Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka. At the start of World War II, Wankowicz fled Nazi-occupied Poland, accompanied Polish army units in the Italian campaign as a war correspond ent, and told their story in his best-selling book Battle of Monte Cassino. Soon after war's end he settled in the U.S. with his wife and daughter, became an American citizen. Homesick and impressed by the new intellectual freedom under Gomulka, he visited Poland in 1958, then four years later settled in Warsaw permanently...
...large crowd had gathered around Prague's ancient Hraděany Castle, clearly hoping to witness the beginning of the downfall of their Communist boss...
Ever since last month's palace revolt at Curtis Publishing Co. forced the resignation of President Matthew J. Culligan, the company has been looking everywhere for a new boss. The directors hired Boyden Associates, a management consulting firm, to help in the search, and the names of outsiders reportedly under consideration got an almost daily workout in the New York press. The list seemed endless: McCall's Publisher A. Edward Miller, former Oil Company Executive Raymond D. McGranahan, former FCC Chairman Newton Minow, and Shelton Fisher, McGraw-Hill publication division president. Then last week the Curtis board...
...workers at a Los Angeles aerospace plant, Herbert Hill seemed odder and odder. The angry exmarine, a purchasing expediter, refused to speak, neglected his work, shoved his chair at passersby, rejected all psychiatric help. Last month Hill's boss ap pealed to a special psychiatric court in the county general hospital. Hill was arrested, examined by two court psychiatrists, and diagnosed as a potentially dangerous schizophrenic. After an informal hearing, at which he was rep resented by a public defender, the court sent Hill to Camarillo State Hospital and scheduled a jury trial to review his commitment. But Hill...