Word: bossed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...politically sensitive job of top U.S. adviser to South Viet Nam's armed forces and boss of the 6,000-odd U.S. advisers attached to Vietnamese units...
...Pope Paul VI on the Vatican's peace offensive, flew on to Paris to see Charles de Gaulle and then to London for discussions with Prime Minister Harold Wilson. Roving Ambassador Averell W. Harriman surfaced in Warsaw, talked about Viet Nam with top Polish officials, including Communist Party Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka, headed for Belgrade to see President Tito, planned thence to go to India. White House Special Assistant McGeorge Bundy went secretly to see Prime Minister Lester Pearson in Canada, which is one of three nations on the Viet Nam International Control Commission set up by the 1954 Geneva...
...thus spelled out an exception to Article 76 that may well embolden other ex-servicemen in Ashe's situation. In effect, Ashe v. McNamara is another sign that U.S. military justice is gradually assuming many of the standards of civilian justice. Not only is Ashe ecstatic; his boss is so pleased that he has ordered the Navy veteran to resume his tenth-grade education at the company's expense...
...lanky Jim Duesenberry won bachelor's, master's and doctor's degrees (in economics) at the University of Michigan, roomed for a time with former Treasury Under Secretary Robert Roosa. One member of the board that granted Duesenberry's Ph.D. was Gardner Ackley, his new boss. An Air Force statistician during World War II, Duesenberry rose from private to captain. He joined the Harvard faculty in 1946, soon made his mark with a study of consumer spending that helped to spike fears that consumers would spend too little to fuel the postwar economy. He became...
...Bank du Commerce by the Chase. In Paris, he ordered a $300,000 face-lifting for the Chase's 55-year-old branch on the Rue Cambon. "We'll look like the '60s instead of the '30s," exulted Paris General Manager Edouard Eller after his boss had left. "French customers will like that. It's the American image...