Word: bossed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...antilynch battle, the most powerful weapon of the N.A.A.C.P. was publicity. Wilkins' boss, Walter White, was a superb propagandist. Actually one sixty-fourth Negro in family-tree terms, White insisted upon classifying himself as a Negro. He was blond and blue-eyed, and one of his favorite tactics was to go out to investigate a lynching, pass himself off as a white newsman, win the confidence of local law officials-and return to write a brutally detailed report...
Power served under growly, grumpy Curt LeMay in the Pacific and impressed his boss-probably, say some cynics, because Power was so much like LeMay. The day LeMay took over SAC in 1948, Tom Power became his deputy, soon earned a reputation as a hatchet man who executed orders with iron-pants precision. After six years, he moved to Baltimore to head the 40,000-man Air Research and Development Command, returning to Nebraska's Offutt Air Force Base to take over...
...Commander George Hatherill, 65, the Yard's dean of sleuths, who speaks eight languages and has solved 17 murders, Yard men investigating the Great Buckinghamshire Train Robbery succeeded in rounding up nine suspects, recovered $761,367 of the $7,000,000 loot. Also on hand were Ernest Millen, boss of the Flying Squad, alias the Heavy Mob, whose 100-odd sleuths know more about the underworld than Dante; and the Terrible Twins, top Detectives Tom Butler and Peter Vibart, who have cracked many a big case together. Yet, so far at least, the gang's ringleaders were still...
Besides, Teodoro Moscoso, U.S. boss of the Alliance for Progress, arrived in Lima last week to meet Belaunde and to discuss Peru's request for $80 million in aid, based on reforms being made. Both the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate quickly approved the program. But the vote, said a spokesman for the opposition APRA Party, "merely extends to the government a line of credit for its intentions. Each of its projects will have to be debated together with similar projects presented by the opposition parties in order to seek a compromise...
Writing the Book. Running a tomato empire may seem a somewhat unusual occupation for a man who prides himself on being an intellectual, a patron of the arts and an enemy of orthodoxy in business. But Norton Simon, 56, the boss of Hunt Foods, is all of these. A well-groomed, soft-spoken man who is impatient with chitchat, Simon makes friends more quickly with ideas than with fellow businessmen, relentlessly questions the obvious, and declines to go by the book-he likes to write it himself. With a sort of business existentialism, he lives by what he calls...