Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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HENRY KISSINGER is back on top now, his darkest days behind him. They occurred just after his celebrated comment in October that "peace is at hand." He became the victim of personal attacks then, with widespread rumors that his boss, President Nixon, was unhappy with his performance. But it was not the first time that Kissinger had found it difficult to be his own man and Richard Nixon's man at the same time. Doggedly carrying on what Washington pundits called "threeway negotiations -with Hanoi, Saigon and Nixon," Kissinger became a driven diplomat. Toward the end, his usual gentle...
...mind is the realization that the long separation has changed her life, too. "Ken's going to have to do a great deal of adjusting. So are we. I know I'm going to have to learn again to share. I've been the boss here, and I've gotten used to that...
...week. Market analysts worry, among other things, about what will happen when the septuagenarian Hammer eventually leaves the scene. The company has gone through two presidents and a number of vice presidents in the past four years, and no clear successor seems ready to take over from Hammer, a boss who sometimes insists on deciding the most minute details. Clearly, Occidental could use a spectacular coup like its Libyan discoveries-and what is more natural than that Hammer should seek it in the Soviet Union, scene of his first youthful triumphs...
President Nixon's choice as boss of Phase III is anything but a mild-mannered Mr. Chips. As dean of Harvard's 2,000-member faculty of arts and sciences, Dunlop customarily opened meetings by saying, "Let's get it all on the table." For 35 years Dunlop, who is now 58, has spent at least one day a week in Washington in Government service. He has endured countless mediation sessions and has written seven books on labor-management problems. The co-author of his latest book, Labor and the American Community, is his close friend Derek...
...Bruno Kreisky-who were due in Paris to attend an annual meeting of the Socialist International this week. "They are coming here as militants," Pompidou protested, "not as chiefs of state." Two days later, he flew off to Byelorussia for a two-day conference with Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev that seemed designed, at least in part, to make points with the French left...