Word: bossed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reaction was strongest among West European Communists. First to speak out were the French, who only a week before Khrushchev's fall had declared their formal independence from Moscow control; they were obviously determined to keep that independence. The French demanded "fuller information and necessary explanations," and Party Boss Waldeck Rochet announced that he would send a delegation to Moscow to get the answers...
...Frank Cousins, 60, Minister of Technology. A hulking six-footer who began working the coal pits at 14, Cousins by 1938 was a full-time labor organizer. As boss of the 1,300,000-man Transport Union, Cousins clashed with Labor's late solidly NATO-minded Hugh Gaitskell and stubbornly called for Britain's unilateral disarmament. Cousins argued that Britain had defended itself in World War II without A-bombs. Gaits-kell's withering reply: "And the British archers won at Agincourt without machine guns." Among Cousins' new responsibilities: overseeing Britain's atomic-energy establishment...
They quietly wish that their honored but aging chief would step aside. After a cataract operation in April, Bustamante can work only part time. Yet he insists on making all decisions and continues to run the Jamaica Labor Party as absolute-and sometimes capricious-boss. Recently two of his senators failed to vote for a government bill making flogging mandatory in rape sentences. An enraged Bustamante ordered them to resign. They...
...return of the intense, volatile Sadler, 53, came after long talks with Smith, American's real boss, whose pride was hurt when Sadler walked out. Sadler became president of American last January as Smith's heir apparent, quit after repeated run-ins with rival executives. Before he would return, he apparently obtained from Smith reassurances of his authority as president, including clear command of flight operations, personnel, marketing and advertising; his $70,000 salary may also have been sweetened...
...onetime manager of the Beverly Hills Tennis Club, "was and perhaps is a very proficient tennis player." The jury will hear evidence over the next few months from 59 witnesses, including Charles Litton and contentious Noah Dietrich, Hughes's longtime right-hand man (they broke up); the onetime boss of the four men in the case, Dietrich will testify for Steele. The trial is sure to produce a lot of heat, and has already confirmed one standard of modern corporate life. In seeking to prove that Steele was really not an important executive, Litton's attorneys pointed...