Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fool a first-rate newspaper like the Globe, a hoaxer has to create a story that does not seem entirely implausible. In the case of Brezhnev, there had been rumors out of Russia for weeks that the Communist Party boss was sick (see EUROPE). As it happened, the hoaxer, who is still unidentified, worked in the ideal setting to exploit the Brezhnev situation: Boston's renowned Sidney Farber Cancer Center. The hoaxer made up a fake admission schedule card for the Russian leader in the style used by clinic personnel: "L. Brezhnev. No wait. See Dr. Frei." Someone...
Scott joined Albertson's as a trainee in 1953 after marrying the boss's daughter, and rose to executive vice president six years later; he proved so able that even after his marriage broke up, his ex-father-in-law made him vice chairman and chief executive officer. Scott wants to improve A. & P.'s "slipping image" among shoppers, partly by building many new stores. He will probably ditch the WEO slogan, which he does not like, but still keep markups low. Yet he also hopes to lift A. &P.'s profit margin, which now hovers...
...Chou quietly saw to it that the nation's key scientists were not obstructed or development projects devastated by the rampaging Red Guards. At one point, Chou's own offices were besieged for two days by a mob of frenzied youths who described him as the "rotten boss of the bourgeoisie, toying ambidextrously with counter-revolution." By allying himself with powerful military commanders, Chou rendered himself immune against attacks by the Cultural Revolution's leaders...
...five-page suicide note, Arnstein backed up her boss's claims. "I don't suppose it matters that I say it," she wrote, "but Hugh M. Hefner is -though few will ever realize it-a staunchly upright, rigorously moral man and I know him well and he has never been involved in the criminal activity which is being attributed to him now." Though the motive for her suicide remained open to speculation, she had tried to kill herself in a similar way twice before, and Hefner described her as an "already emotionally troubled young woman" even before...
Required Reading. Mesquita's editorial page remains rigidly antiCommunist. It abhors any tinkering with private enterprise. But the news columns have a less conservative tone. The pa per's liberal reporters are not compelled to follow the boss's views...