Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Office of Scientific Research and Development, which was then working on the atomic bomb. He spent a postwar year as special assistant to James Forrestal, then Secretary of the Navy, and in 1947 went to Merck as general attorney. In that capacity he was instrumental in getting his old boss, Bush, signed on as the firm's board chairman...
...into a European future," exclaimed German Economics Minister Kurt Schmücker. He was stubble-bearded and blanched with fatigue after two marathon bargaining sessions that had lasted 42 hours. "It's a great, great success, a great political event," said the European Economic Community's farm boss, Sicco Mansholt, his voice breaking with emotion. Then, at 5:30 on a foggy morning in Brussels, the diplomats unabashedly embraced one another...
While still eager to catch such big fish as Martin Bormann, Hitler's top deputy, and Heinrich Müller, a boss of the Gestapo, who are repeatedly rumored to be alive in hiding, Bonn claims that an extension of the statute would mainly net unimportant minnows at home, and overburden prosecutors who find it harder and harder to prove specific charges after 20 years. As one official puts it: "If you want to bring to court every railroad man who pulled the switches at Auschwitz, knowing that the trains were carrying Jews to their deaths, there will...
Midst laurels stood: General Curtis LeMay, 58, U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff and World War II Bomber Command boss, whose B-29s helped devastate Japan, decorated with Japan's Order of the Grand Cordon of the Rising Sun for his role in building up the country's postwar defenses; U.S. Steel Chairman Roger Blough, 60, given the New York City U.S.O.'s gold medal "as one who symbolizes the support of U.S.O. by major industries of America"; Vinoba Bhave, 69, Gandhian holy man whose pilgrimages across India have netted 5,000,000 acres of "land...
Here Comes the Boss. Everyone from chief executive to chief clerk seems to be flying for the company, but no one has felt the revolution's effect quicker than salesmen. Once they plodded from stop to stop with a sample case jammed into a Pullman berth; today they jet across greatly expanded territories while their sample cases ride in the luggage compartment as air freight rather than as expensive excess baggage. In the era of the seven-league sell, salesmen also have to be more alert. Sales managers jet around, too, and more often than not they skim...