Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...body cast for a time. His back has grown less troublesome, although he eases it at times by relaxing in a rocking chair in his office.) Adds Mondale: "He'll fight on principle. But he doesn't run up the flag five times a day to show who's boss." A Vance aide concurs, declaring, "He fights like a son of a bitch. But when the decision is made, he'll say, 'The battle is over,' then go out and support...
...newly appointed aide to Strategic Air Command Boss Curtis LeMay, Lieut. Colonel David C. Jones was apprehensive when he planned a 1956 flight with the tough-talking general to Goose Bay in Labrador. Jones' concern turned out to be justified. LeMay walked unexpectedly through a door in the C-97, and a startled flight engineer dropped a hatch, which hit the general on the head. Next a crewman guarding another open hatch was distracted just as LeMay approached, and the commander fell into the hole, suffering scratches and bruises. Finally, LeMay was walking forward in the aircraft, lighting...
...occasion, Costanza lapsed briefly into a humorous, drawling imitation of her boss. "Not only am I liberal and progressive, but I could also be considered weird," she said later...
...freelancers insist that their vocaion has its attractions. "I'm my own boss," beams Reeves. Says Breslin: "It's the exquisite pleasure of being able to sleep until noon." It is also the exquisite torture of having to spend more time selling stories than writing them, of waiting months until the magazines print-or pay for-them and of passing long hours with only a typewriter for company. Says Marilyn Bethany, who quit freelancing last year to edit a home-decorating quarterly: "The worst part is the loneliness...
Most good ole Southern boys, in times of trouble and turmoil, strive to affect an air of bold insouciance. Few can match the macho mood of Bert Lance. Since his forced resignation as budget boss last September, Lance has continued to have the ear of his friend Jimmy Carter, and he is not shy in flaunting his special status to prospective business partners. He has trotted around the world flourishing Diplomatic Passport X-000065, which allowed him to bypass customs and which the White House intervened to keep for him. Earlier in March an organization called Friendship Force, founded...