Word: bossed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such skepticism is not hard to fathom. Past administrations have usually responded to congressional criticism of foreign aid by appointing a committee, reshuffling a few alphabetical agencies, giving the program a different name, and hiring a new boss. In its lifetime, the program has had no fewer than seven aliases and 17 administrators-without ever achieving basic reforms. If such reforms do not come this time, it may mean the end of foreign...
...with the shock problem. In the higher echelons, where the carpeting is lushest, the shocks are worst. To offset this human storage-battery syndrome, some top brass try grounding themselves with door keys, like Franklin's kite. Juniors are careful to pause on metal thresholds before entering the boss's office, in order to discharge accumulated voltage through their shoe soles. "Maybe," says the office manager of a large Manhattan corporation, "we could all trail chains behind us like gasoline trucks...
Died. William Joseph Green Jr., 53, longtime (since 1948) Democratic Representative from Pennsylvania's Fifth District, iron-fisted boss of Philadelphia's Democratic machine, who overturned 68 years of Republican rule in Philadelphia in the 1951 mayoralty election, delivered a city majority for Kennedy in 1960, helped elect Mayor James Tate this fall; of acute hemorrhagic pancreatitis; in Philadelphia...
...factory of Nikita Khrushchev, who resembles Santa Claus only in shape. Chilled by the reception East Germans gave him last summer at the Wall, and aware that the spirit of détente had not yet thawed the frozen pivotal point in East-West relations, Khrushchev talked East German Boss Walter Ulbricht into opening negotiations for the Christmas visits...
Died. Theodore Virgil Houser, 71, former (1954-58) chairman of Sears, Roebuck & Co., described by his friend and onetime Sears boss, General Robert E. Wood, as the "greatest master of mass merchandising in the U.S."; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...