Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...government would be on hand. But 24 potential Nefos were disturbed enough at his U.N. walkout last January to turn him down flat, and only Peking and its satellites sent their top men. Of the five sponsors of the 1955 Bandung Conference, only Sukarno was on hand as boss of a nation. Nasser dispatched a Vice President, Burma and Ceylon were represented only by their ambassadors, and from India came not Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri but Chidambaram Subramaniam, the Food Minister...
...chairmen have three times passed on their duties as chief executive shortly before retirement. Last week, nearing 65, Chairman Lawrence Litchfield Jr. relinquished his duties as chief executive officer, a position he has held for only three years, to President John Dickson Harper, 55, Alcoa's first boss of the post-Davis era. Said Litchfield: "It's time to get the next first team lined...
...Managing Director Luitzen Brouwer, 54. Spaght will in herit one of Loudon's titles: chairman of U.S. Shell. To take over the American firm as Spaght's successor, Shell named Richard C. McCurdy, 56, an Iowa-born mining engineer who worked up from oilfield roustabout to Shell boss in Venezuela and, since 1953, has been president of Shell Chemical...
...probation, ducks school, packs up his guitar and moves into a furnished room, supporting himself with a job as a dishwasher. Freedom turns out to mean long hours at low pay. While urging Julie to run away with him, he finds work at a parking lot where the boss teaches him the art of short-changing customers. At length Peter empties the cash register, jumps into a car, and goes...
...Boss Tweed's New York, judges, senators and city contracts were for sale, whisky and stocks were watered, refuse littered the streets, and night life featured everything from twelve-year-old chorus girls to a pack of trained fox terriers killing rats. In the West, road agents and fire swept the gold towns, gamblers and prostitutes cleaned up, and children entertained themselves by re-enacting the latest lynching. Such a climate is perfectly suited to the talents of the two characters who dominate the book. Giving up corporation law in New York for a squalid miner's wickiup...