Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After a whirlwind tour of the West with Campaigner Lyndon B. Johnson, CBS Correspondent Dan Rather got back to Washington for a breather. There, his boss, News Director William Small, wanted to know how the campaign seemed to be going. Rather could not say. At today's pace, he explained, "you don't have time to get the sense, the smell of the campaign. You whip in and whip...
...gained a seat in the cockpit and was handed a flight plan that called for higher altitudes for American. But he was not granted a firm grip on the stick. C. R. Smith, American's strong-minded president ever since the airline was founded in 1934, remained the boss from his new post of chairman. William J. Hogan, who had been Sadler's rival for the job, continued to hold on tightly to the purse strings as executive vice president and chairman of the finance committee. For Sadler, 53, who had climbed from ramp attendant to president...
Siles accused Paz of personalisimo. At election time, Siles joined Juan Lechín, leftist boss of the tin miners, in a hunger strike, hoping to dramatize his thesis that Paz was becoming a dictator. When that failed, he set out to organize an opposition...
...only oil company with outlets in all 50 states. Howard Rambin has been moving too. Last week, at 53, he was named Texaco's new chairman and chief executive officer, a post in which he will replace retiring Augustus C. Long, 60, Texaco's top boss for the past eight years...
Rambin worked as a roustabout on the rigs to pay his way through Louisiana State's petroleum-engineering course, joined Texaco in 1935. After managing divisions in the Louisiana fields, he moved on to a succession of high-test jobs, became boss of southern operations in 1962 and president of the entire company in 1963. He worked closely with Long at Texaco's Manhattan headquarters where top management wields greater centralized authority than is customary in most oil firms. Under Long, Texaco raised its earnings last year to $546 million to become the third most profitable U.S. company...