Word: boss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Three weeks ago I was waiting in the outer office for an appointment with the Institute director when an electric typewriter salesman walked in the door. After informing him that the boss was in conference, the secretary asked the salesman if he had ever taken the course himself. He replied sheepishly, "I don't really read too well, usually I fall asleep. So I guess I wouldn't really make too good a student." "Oh, you would though," the secretary exclaimed, "Think how fast you could read when you were awake...
...comes along promising to make the trains run on time by jailing every lefty and long-hair in sight. Now you're whitewashing your new Brazilian hero with the same holy water you have sprinkled so smugly over similar free-world saviors, such as Thailand's boss. This brings to mind your fairy tales about Diem ten years back. If we are to avoid getting ensnared in other tragedies like Viet Nam, magazines like yours had better start telling it like...
...division general manager who introduced the Mustang (TIME cover, April 17, 1964), is now corporate vice president responsible for all Ford Motor Co. production and sales. Donald N. Frey (pronounced Fry), Iacocca's assistant general manager and chief engineer, the man who actually designed the Mustang, succeeded his boss two years ago as Ford division general manager. Last week Frey, 44, moved even higher. He was promoted to the brand-new post of corporate vice president of North American vehicle product development. Frey is Detroit's sharpest idea man. Besides the Mustang, he is responsible for such innovations...
...University of Michigan, Frey joined Ford in 1951 to get practical experience. He speaks Russian and French, likes opera, follows archaeology as a hobby, and reads the London Times Literary Supplement as avidly as Ward's Automotive Reports. So professorially engrossed is he in his work that when Boss Henry Ford II tapped him for his new job, Frey forgot to ask whether it meant a pay raise. So far, it hasn...
...Major General Thomas F. Farrell, 75, U.S. Army engineer and key figure in the development of the first atomic bomb, who in 1944 was recalled from crash building projects in India (the Ledo Road, the pipeline to China) to the even more urgent job of deputy to Manhattan Project Boss General Leslie Groves, sharing vital information that Groves previously held alone, assuring a backup in case of accident, later coordinated operations for the A-bomb drops on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; of cancer; in Reno...