Word: boss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Afternoon Off. Svoboda soon decided that he wanted to talk directly with the Kremlin leaders; Moscow agreed that he could come, but insisted that representatives of the conservatives on the Presidium must also be represented. Bilak and Indra joined the delegation, as did another conservative, Jan Filler, the party boss of Middle Bohemia. To balance the lineup, Svoboda was also permitted to bring along three Dubcek loyalists: Defense Minister Dzur, Minister of Justice Bohuslav Kucera and Central Committeeman Gustav Husak. It began to look like Cierna all over again?but on the Kremlin's terms. Before leaving, Svoboda asked...
...Eastern Europe, Alexander Dubcek's two Communist allies were, if anything, stronger in their protest. "The attack on Czechoslovakia," said Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, "is a significant historical rupture in the relations among Socialist countries." Rumanian Presi dent and Party Boss Nicolae Ceausescu called it "a great mistake, a grave danger to peace...
Died. Torkild Rieber, 86, chairman of Texaco from 1935 to 1940, and overseer of one of the greatest engineering feats in oil-industry history; in Manhattan. Shortly after becoming boss, Rieber bought the idle Barco oilfields, 1,200,000 acres deep in the jungles of Colombia, and during three years of collaboration with Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., hacked a 263-mile pipeline over the Andes to service tankers on the country's Caribbean coast...
United Aircraft Corp., whose East Hartford, Conn., executive suite has been as stable as Fairchild's has been shaky, announced the Oct. 1 retirement at 65 of Chairman Horace Mansfield Horner, only the second boss that the huge aerospace company has had since it was founded 34 years ago. "Jack" Horner is the son of an early backer of Pratt & Whitney, United's creator. An engineer (Yale '26), he joined the engine maker right after graduation, when it had 80 employees and heady plans to build an aircraft engine called the Wasp. A high-performance engine...
...drive free-world ships out of business. For their part, the Russians say that they are anxious to join the rate-setting conferences that they once condemned as "capitalist cartels." "I see no reason why we should not operate like other shipping men," says George Maslov, London-based boss of Russia's Anglo-Soviet Shipping Co. "We do not aim to dominate world shipping, but if opportunities do arise to make some money on the side with our fleet, we certainly won't pass them...