Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Clemente; despite their close association, he saw the President only twice. Roy Ash, director of the White House's Office of Management and Budget, went out for one weekend to talk over the budget for the next fiscal year and never did get to see the boss. Indeed, Ash has met with the President only three times to discuss final decisions on the budget, which will chart the course of the Government. Only Energy Czar William Simon has been in frequent touch with Nixon lately (see cover story page 22). The White House staff will soon be weakened...
There are others who would like to leave too. Bill Timmons, 43, official liaison with Congress for the White House, has reluctantly agreed to stay on for another year; to quit now, he fears, would be interpreted as an act of disloyalty to his boss. Chief Speechwriter Ray Price, 43, has been thinking about leaving, but will stay on for the present...
Demanding Boss. The hope among White House staffers is that Vice President Gerald Ford will perform Laird's role as a top-level troubleshooter while also influencing domestic policy. But to accomplish this, Ford will have to become a commanding figure in his own right, something no Vice President in history has been able to do. Says one key White House assistant: "Let's wait six weeks and see how it works...
...features. Some mannequin makers have picked up the nostalgia craze and created Marilyn Monroe models. "We've made the figures rounder and softer, with bellies and bottoms," says William O'Connor of Adel Rootstein. The Houston department store Sakowitz & Co. asked D.G. Williams & Co. to mold the boss's wife, comely Pamela Sakowitz, in plastic. With the aid of photographs and sittings, Williams created a series of plastic Pams as a display gimmick for Sakowitz windows. Not to be outdummied, Gimbel Bros, requested a model of Heiress Sophie Gimbel; Garfinckel's in Washington, D.C., asked...
...Nixon Administration abhors the very idea of gasoline rationing, considers rationing unnecessary, and lacks the statutory authority to order it even if it wanted to. Nonetheless, Federal Energy Boss William Simon last week began gearing up the machinery to impose rationing, just in case. He ordered the Federal Bureau of Engraving and Printing to start printing a three-month supply of ration coupons, and announced a comprehensive-and imaginative-stand-by plan for their use. Key feature: a kind of Government-sanctioned black market or, in the words of policy planners, a "white market...