Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Labor has two favorites, both being pushed by AFL-CIO Boss George Meany: Harvard's John Dunlop, 62, to return to the Labor Department he headed effectively until he quit in a policy dispute with President Ford, and U.A.W. President Leonard Woodcock, 65, to become Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Andrew Brimmer, 50, one of the nation's most distinguished economists-and a black-is considered a possible Secretary of the Treasury. So, too, are Peter Peterson, 50, a Commerce Secretary dropped by former President Nixon; Robert Roosa, 58, an Under Secretary of the Treasury...
...about the same time Brown-Beasley is receiving markedly different treatment. After quarreling, against his boss's orders, with another employee whom he felt was endangering an expensive Holyoke Center computer, Brown-Beasley is fired. Hiss boss, R. Jerrold Gibson '51, director of the Office of Fiscal Services, has taken none of the "progressive" disciplinary steps mandated by the salaried personnel manual: informal oral warnings recorded by the employer, warning letters and suspension...
...Jimmy Carter's confidant, factotum and campaign manager from the first, Hamilton Jordan, 32, can be described as the chief architect of his boss's campaign. In an interview with TIME Correspondent John Stacks, Jordan (pronounced Jer-din) discussed his winning strategy...
...brief, unauthorized strikes and protests that have been taking place across the country. This discord reached even into the highest echelons of the party. At the mid-October session of the central committee, the frail, 76-year-old Luigi Longo, who was Berlinguer's predecessor as party boss, challenged the tactic of non-opposition because it put "the interests of the party in second place [merely] in order to show our national responsibility." He was countered by Giorgio Amendola, 69, a noted historian and essayist, who emphasized that Italy's current crisis (17% inflation, a $20 billion budget...
...himself. Jaded preview audiences are giving it ovations, and much of Hollywood is assuming that star and movie will be up for Oscars next year. "I can't recall such excitement about a new movie and a new star since maybe Giant and James Dean," gloats United Artists Boss Mike Medavoy. Says TV's Norman Lear: "That movie sent me through the ceiling...