Word: boss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their own. It is called the International Youth Service of Solidarity and Friendship and has nearly 1,000 volunteers from Russia and Eastern Europe at work. Last week it announced that it will raise its strength to 2,500 (v. the U.S. Peace Corps' 14,000). The boss of the Red Peace Corps is Bulgarian Ivan Ganev, who runs the outfit from a crumbling villa in Budapest...
Married. Mary Wells, 39, comely maverick of Madison Avenue, boss of fast-rising Wells, Rich, Greene, Inc., who painted Braniff Airways planes in pastels; and Harding Lawrence, 47, president of Braniff; both for the second time; in Paris...
...administration's philosophy has not been without opposition. Last summer Henry Hope Reed, Curator of Central Park, attacked Heckscher, his boss, for "Commercialization" of the park...
...North had been boss of the 97-year-old family circus since 1936, and with his brother Henry, 58, held a controlling 51% of the stock. While John lived in Paris, Rome and Zurich for most of the past four years, he left details to Henry and grew ever more weary of dealing with fractious minority shareholders...
...really powerful in this world are the people who can block a promotion, or a secretary who by dropping a sly word gets her boss to come down hard on someone she dislikes. When a personnel functionary (whose child does not learn to talk but to "verbalize") searches for a damning phrase, he hotly charges a subordinate with "unilateral action." Even workers in the "field" when making a report must learn the lingo that will impress their chiefs back in the glass house: "As you know, the object of the Civic Coordination Programme is to tap the dynamics of social...