Word: boss
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...tales fresh from trackside, then told his colleagues that he was not overly optimistic. Little in the research filed by TIME reporters across the country indicated that complaining commuters were in for much immediate relief. In fact, Washington Correspondent Juan Cameron, who interviewed Stuart Saunders, discovered that the busy boss of the country's biggest railroad seldom rides by train himself. He prefers autos or planes, and Cameron suspects he knows the reason. He took a trip in one of the Pennsy's private "company" coaches, and reports that it was spartan, overheated, and far from the sybaritic...
John Grey Gorton, 56, likes to say that he is "Australian to my boot heels." He is an avid sportsman (tennis, swimming, water-skiing), a cool politician with an instinct for shrewdness and enterprise, and a demanding boss with a reputation for firmness and hard work. Sworn in last week as Australia's 19th Prime Minister-succeeding the late Harold Holt, who drowned last month off Portsea (TIME, Dec. 29)-Gorton is also very much his own man. He will probably wield a stronger, more decisive leadership than Holt and bend slightly to the left in his domestic policy...
Dates & Limits. In his own climactic speech, Frei cut loose all of the pent-up frustration of three years. "I do not pretend to be the owner or the boss of the party," he said. "This could never be the attitude of a man who owes everything to the party." He had always, Frei said, discussed the main issues with members, and had invited them to his home for talks. "You must remember," he stressed, "that I have the responsibility of administering the country. You must not forget, dear companions, that the constitution has some regulations about dates and time...
...unions and has shown a dummy issue to prospective advertisers. This week the directors of the Chicago Tribune-Daily News meet in Florida to ponder a decision. "The News is farther down the road toward bringing out a paper than anyone else has been," says International Typographers Union Boss Bert Powers...
Fitzwilly, the hero of this bit of family fodder, is a larcenous butler with a heart of pablum and a summa cum laude college degree. He keeps his daffy dowager boss (Edith Evans) in the chips by masterminding a ring of domestics who specialize in plundering New York department stores. When the old lady hires a pert new secretary (Barbara Feldon) with a suspicious nature, the wily Fitzwilly (Dick Van Dyke) has to scramble to bring off the big one-Gimbels on Christmas...