Word: bossing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of the criticism was aimed at Antonin Novotny, 63, who lost his job as party boss to Alexander Dubček in January but is still Czechoslovakia's President. Dubček's supporters believe that they will not be able to carry out all the reforms they want, especially in the stagnant economy, until Novotny and his apparatchik cronies are uprooted from the government. Other Czechoslovaks simply want to banish the remaining vestiges of what had been a humorless and, at times, brutal regime. "Those who have lost the trust of the people," says Professor...
...more peculiar facets of Communist protocol is the hearty hugging and kissing that accompanies every meeting. As they gathered last week in Sofia to review the seven-nation War saw military pact, the Soviet bloc's top bosses traded hugs and kisses aplenty. Bulgaria's Premier and Party Boss Todor Zhivkov, the host, Russia's Leonid Brezhnev and Aleksei Kosygin, Czechoslovakia's Alexander Dubček and Rumania's Nicolae Ceausescu-all greeted each other effusively. As the second high-level Communist meeting in as many weeks wore on, however, the bruises soon outnumbered...
...product. Jimmy Wallington was Chase & Sanborn. Don Wilson was JellO. Harry von Zell was Ipana. Today the sell is generally softer or more tangential, the product is illustrated, and the salesman is anonymous and generally invisible. "You're not paying for the name," explains Chandler Warren, talent-booking boss for the Young & Rubicam ad agency. "You're paying for the quality that a person brings to the commercial...
Died. Pierre Rey, 70, financial adviser to Prince Rainier and president of Monaco's controlling Société des Bains de Mer from 1953 to 1959, chairman since 1963; of cancer; in Monaco. As boss of the S.B.M., which includes the casino, the yacht club the Hôtel de Paris and about one-third of Monaco's 375 acres, Rey was Rainier's lieutenant in the long struggle with Aristotle Onassis that ended last year when the government paid $8,000,000 for Onassis' interests in the casino company...
...Pleasure Factory is so named by the resort's manager. Vartan Lipyan, a clever Armenian who runs the place splendidly for the customers, the state and especially for himself. No Communist, Lipyan has made his first million, and is happily stacking up a second. The local party boss knows that Lipyan is not one of the faithful, but he is too shrewd to rock a setup that makes him look good. The truth, says Tarsis, is that these socialist vacations on the regime leave plenty of opportunity for grafters, people who charge exorbitant rents for private houses and those...