Word: boss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lamenting the departure of Mr. McNamara, my boss for the past two years, I should like to make a few observations on our era: glamour and personality, petty and inconsequential qualities seem to play much too great a role in the selection of our national leaders. Mr. McNamara, with his drab, oldfashioned, almost spartan public image, has proved a welcome and competent exception to the rule. His unquestioned integrity, coupled with his demonstrated ability, loyalty and courage, mark him as one of the truly unsung heroes of our time. It is regrettable that such enormous talents are to be relegated...
Though he has a staff of managers and other aides, Hope himself is the key to the whole enterprise. More than one corporation boss has suggested that Bob is supremely capable of running any kind of major business. RCA Board Chairman David Sarnoff says that he is even slicker at the negotiating table than on the air. Richard Berg, who produced Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theater for TV, says he "has a very crisp approach and a totally organized mind. He's not an easy man to please; you know he's measuring, testing...
...ignore the criticism from Karamanlis. But when the colonels became aware of the furor that his words had caused in Greece, they sent a statement to the Greek press that characterized his actions as ill-timed, irresponsible, and "nationally unacceptable," and compared them with those of the exiled boss of the Greek Communist Party. Until now, that part of the Greek press still operating has obediently followed the junta's orders, but the attack on Karamanlis was simply too much. Two Athens publishers, Nassos Botsis and Panes Athanasiades, declared that they would rather go to prison than print such...
...Stan is stepping down again. He has to devote full time to his restaurant and hotel business since the death of his partner. Taking over will be New York Mets President Bing Devine, 50, who thereby jumps from head of the league's worst team to boss of its best. Not that Bing doesn't deserve his material-he hired most of the Cards' current starters prior to getting fired as their G.M. in 1964, just before they won their last pennant...
...Inmates. A 22-year-old college student spent nearly four weeks there earlier this year after being convicted of buying $150 worth of merchandise on someone else's credit card. He recalls that on his arrival, the "barn boss" of his tier, a Negro con named "Briefcase," immediately "told me that because I was white and weak, I would need protection." Briefcase offered to provide it in return for the boy's shirt and coat. The student reluctantly ponied up, but that night Briefcase and a friend came to his cell, and attacked him homosexually. "I begged them...