Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PLAYHOUSE (NET, 8-9 p.m.). A French-made dramatized documentary, The Boss's Son, deals with the predictable demise of the romance between a textile magnate's son and one of his father's factory girls...
Later in the week, Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird, who was Nixon's military adviser during the campaign, reluctantly admitted that his boss was right on sufficiency-which to Laird was apparently synonymous with "superiority." To further that end, said Laird, the Nixon Administration would continue with the $5 billion-to-$10 billion Sentinel antiballistic missile system. Designed to ward off a primitive Chinese attack-but virtually useless against a heavy Russian assault-Sentinel, in Laird's view, would nonetheless be an important bargaining pawn when negotiations do start with the Soviets. Many Congressmen, who grudgingly agreed...
...director, Walter Bedell Smith, asked him to come to Washington to talk over revisions in the agency's structure. "I went to Washington intending to stay six weeks," Dulles remembered. "I remained with the CIA for eleven years." He became a deputy director in 1951, CIA boss two years later...
Giving It Away. The boss-a roly-poly man with thinning hair and a pencil-thin mustache-seems to enjoy appearing less than couth. Stone's frequent repetition of stock lines and his mispronunciations can be misleading. He is serious, bright and extremely shrewd. Though he delegates day-to-day authority to five top aides, he makes all the major policy decisions. His three grown children are all directors of Combined. Stone goes into the office only one day a week, on other days he works at home or travels-visiting the company's field men and preaching...
...Communist Party, which they scornfully dismiss as "a mere appendage of the Soviet bureaucracy," and the left-wing Confédération Générale du Travail. Both, they charge, failed to exploit existing power vacuums. "The party of order and political wisdom," as Communist Boss Waldeck Rochet described his organization, opted for a Popular Front government. By so doing...