Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...independent attitude has impressed his boss. "He is the kind of guy the President likes," remarked one Cabinet member. Says Kahn: "He is the President and has the right to make a judgment, and I have the right to disagree with it, which I do." One time, the CAB had recommended giving Pan American World Airways nonstop flights between Dallas-Fort Worth and London. Carter awarded the route to Braniff Airways. Kahn publicly disputed the ruling and considered resigning. "Then I counted to 24," he recalls, "and decided to stay because I was having such a good time." Kahn...
...tepid. In most Communist countries, -there was a telling hiatus of several hours before the party-lining press and radio broke the news. But Peking, which has yet to announce the U.S. moon landings, broadcast the news quickly. Most Communist organs reported the election matter of factly. Soviet Boss Leonid Brezhnev issued a belated pro forma wish for "friendship and peace between peoples...
During his free time as an 18-year-old clerk in a Sears, Roebuck store in Gardner, Mass., Peter Roberts invented a quick-release ratchet wrench that enabled a mechanic to change sockets with one hand. At his boss's suggestion, Roberts offered his invention to Sears. Executives told him that his wrench probably would not sell well and that patents were pending for similar tools. But Sears eventually bought the rights to Roberts' wrench...
Some unkind critics might think that Rumania's party boss, Nicolae Ceauşescu, was trying to encourage a, well, cult of personality. Bronze heads and busts cast in his image dot the country. He has twice been declared a Hero of the Socialist Republic of Rumania. His uniform as commander in chief of the Rumanian armed forces is encrusted with medals. He has been acclaimed in the adulatory party press for "exceptional creativeness in philosophy, political economy, history, education, science and culture." Now, as a fitting cap to this imposing catalogue of achievements, awards and encomiums, the diminutive...
...people who have "normal emotions and normal reactions to situations." Therefore we end up with "single-dimension, single-purpose, carefully bred, genetically selected creatures." The forum was PBS's Dick Cavett Show, the observer was John Ehrlichman, and the creature who prompted his comment was his former boss Richard Nixon. During the Watergate hearings, asked Cavett, did Ehrlichman feel he was being held to the fire by "men more honorable than yourself?" "Well," Ehrlichman replied, "I never had that suspicion about the Senate in general." As for the Watergate committee, which included Herman Talmadge, Edward Gurney, and the late...