Word: bossed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...matter who happens to be the boss in South Viet Nam, Saigon's newspapers lead a precarious existence. Those that don't die of malnutrition, a common fate where even the biggest daily is hard put to it to muster 35,000 readers, run the risk of offending the government. The late President Diem controlled the press with a heavy hand. And, after a temporary lull, so did the junta government that overthrew him. Last week Major General Nguyen Khanh, who overthrew Diem's over-throwers last January, demonstrated that he was no different from...
James Forstner was a well-regarded juvenile probation officer in San Francisco. He was, that is, until last fall when he began sporting a beard. Shave it off, he was ordered. Forstner's charges would get a bad "impression of beatnikism," said the boss. When he refused, Forstner was fired. When the civil service commission rejected his appeal, he went to state superior court. "Maybe every beatnik wears a beard," argued his hairsplitting lawyer, "but not every person who wears a beard is a beatnik...
...Security Division showed that more than a tenth of the men had forgotten-or never knew-how to read and write with any skill. One cook, for example, had memorized the first letter of each item on the menu, and thus hid his illiteracy; his downfall came when the boss ordered him to get some wine and he could not read the labels. The first step, for many, had to be elementary schooling...
...Stanford economics graduate (B.A., '34), Lewis started as a metal cutter at Lockheed, rose during the war to boss of sales but quit in 1947 to join Canadair, a General Dynamics subsidiary. He was an Assistant Secretary of the Air Force when Pan American World Airways President Juan Trippe hired him in 1955 as an executive vice president. When he left Pan Am to join General Dynamics, he not only gave up an odds-on chance to succeed Trippe some day but made a tremendous financial sacrifice: he forfeited stock options that by now would have brought...
...copper mines of Chile are a natural proving ground for the boss of Anaconda Co.-Charles M. Brinckerhoff, 63, who last week was promoted from president to the newly created post of vice chairman and chief executive officer. He succeeds Clyde E. Weed, 74, who stays on as chairman. A Columbia-trained mining engineer, Brinckerhoff spent 23 of his 38 years with Anaconda supervising its Chilean mines, the source of 70% of the output and 80% of the profits of the world's second largest copper producer (after Kennecott). Among his honors: the Bernardo O'Higgins Order...