Word: bossed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enough to have brought along her own outrider, like everyone else. His name is Hampton Fancher III. "You mean there are two others?" cracked one of the company. Fancher, a 25-year-old would-be actor, takes advantage of his position as consort to boss everybody around...
...overseas. Sperry & Hutchinson, oldest and biggest of the stamp companies (40% of the market), last week began handing out its stamps in Britain-not the usual S. & H. green stamps, but pink ones because a local stamp rival called Green Shield got there first. In violent opposition, Lord Sainsbury, boss of the big Sainsbury's grocery chain, is preparing to do bitter battle against the gum-backed invaders. In the first skirmish he cut the price of bread, but his chances of holding out are slim. In the U.S. even the mighty A. & P. buckled under after years...
...program, and its last chief executive served into his 80s. Almost casually last week, Bethlehem's Chairman and Chief Executive Arthur Bartlett Homer remarked to reporters that a program had been worked out-and that he would be among the first to be affected. Said the tall, laconic boss of the nation's second largest steel company and biggest ship builder: "I don't like to talk about it, but April 14 is the annual meeting of Bethlehem Steel; it is the date of the expiration of my term as director, and it is my birthday...
...there are only three levels of supervision from his own job down to the mechanic servicing a plane outside his window. Though Western's routes span from Calgary to Mexico City, the entire executive crew, only 28 people, is under one roof at the Los Angeles airport. The boss expects every employee to be "an amateur cost accountant." Drinkwater works up to 15 hours on some days but manages to knock off for three afternoons of golf a week...
...another game of footsy, one of those comedies that tries to make a virtue of its vice but can't decide which is which. In it, Paul Newman gamely plays an oversexed newspaperman exiled to the Champs Elysées after meeting too many deadlines with his boss's wife. Joanne Woodward is a department store buyer who treks abroad to pinch designs from Dior, Lanvin-Castillo and Pierre Cardin. Naturellement, she herself wears mannish styles and spectacles-she's a sort of hemidemisemivirgin, "a girl who tried love once but didn't like...