Word: bossing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...telephoning government agencies, radio and TV stations for information. Cafes are packed as customers argue over their foamy beer. The cause of the excitement is the transformation that is occurring in Czechoslovakia under Alexander Dubček, 46, who only in January ousted Antonín Novotný as boss of the country's Communist Party. Last week Czechoslovakia's 14,300,000 people were reading news that was as unfamiliar as it was welcome...
...political aristocrats, OEO Boss Sargent Shriver and Illinois State Treasurer Adlai Stevenson III, were interested in the Governor's chair that Democrat Otto Kerner is relinquishing this year. Neither was overly eager for the tougher assignment of trying to unhorse Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, 72. And both were anathema to Daley's party regulars...
...other plays and kept from circulation the most promising Polish movie of the year, a surrealistic comedy on politics called Hands Up. Also kept from circulation was Critic Janusz Szpotanski, 34, author of a musical satire, The Silent and the Honkers, that caricatured some Polish public figures, including Party Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka. After listening to a tape recording of his play, a Polish court sentenced Szpotanski to three years in prison for harming state interests...
When the Flying Tigers' boss, General Claire Chennault, domesticated some war-weary military transports and U.S. fighter pilots following World War II, hardly anyone expected the ragtag operation to last for long. In fact, his CAT (for Civil Air Transport) blossomed into one of the best-run airlines in all of Asia, flying out of Taipei around the Communist perimeter from Seoul to Bangkok. But now, CAT's string seems to have...
...death rattles of empire were not heard until much later. Singer Sewing Machine Corp was sinking the same way in the 1950s says Jay, until Donald Kircher moved in as president and began reviving it. Jay can find a historical analogy for almost everything about the modern corporation. "The boss's secretary," he observes, "can wield great power, like the king's mistress, without any authority at all or at least not the sort you can show anybody...