Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...compound contains the homes of East Germany's Communist leaders, who like to stick together, and perhaps need to. In all the people's republic, it is excelled in luxury-and remoteness from the people-only by the 25-room residence of Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht at Schorfheide, 32 miles north of Berlin. Ulbricht's home, with its movie theater, glass-enclosed garden, private lake front, shooting range and volleyball courts, is often used by the party leadership as a secret conference site. Of both enclaves, West German Author Uwe Johnson (Two Views) says: "They have built...
...handful of lieutenant colonels, Andrew Terence Juxon-Smith, 34, who had been attending a British military staff school at the time of the coups. "I gave him what advice I could from my own little mind," Juxon-Smith reported. "As far as I was concerned, he was boss." No longer, as far as the junta was concerned, though. Shortly after Flight 321 took off from London, the officers in Freetown changed their minds about Genda, and when the plane made a refueling stop in the Canary Islands, they got through to him by telephone. They told...
Like a Barony. Mr. Mac is a man of continuing contradictions. From the start of his highly organized career he has concentrated his genius for aerospace production on a comparatively few products. But next month, by merging his company with Douglas Aircraft, he will become boss of one of the nation's most impressively diversified aerospace manufacturers. In an era of bland corporate management, he insists on ruling his 20th century aeronautical beehive like a 19th century industrial barony. His warm paternalism is flavored with benevolent despotism; he customarily sends a pair of baby shoes when an employee becomes...
Died. Lieut. General Sir Frederick E. Morgan, 73, Eisenhower's deputy chief of staff during World War IIs Normandy invasion, who served briefly as administrator of the U.N.'s relief agency, UNRRA, in postwar Germany, but was forced to resign when he outraged his boss, Fiorello La Guardia, by bluntly charging that Soviet spies were using UNRRA as a cover; of a stroke; in Northwood, England...
...character sketches are deft and pleasing. The narrator says about his mother: "While she was thinking she wept a little, just so the thinking shouldn't go to waste." And about Sam Gold's lieutenant in the shop, Myrna, a great robust woman who tempts the boss into carnal misbehavior: "Two husbands had already died under her, and one had fled." If that isn't pure gold, it is at least pure Gold...