Word: bossing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Until the war, their cause and that of the other Palestinian Arabs scattered through the Middle East had been led by Ahmed Shukairy, the leftist, demagogic boss of the Palestine Liberation Organization. But Shukairy, who fled from the front even before the first shots were fired, was so thoroughly discredited that Palestinians no longer want anything to do with him, and the Arab states have cut off the P.L.O.'s $15 million yearly subsidy. Shukairy's fall created a vacuum of leadership, which is now being filled by West Bank Arabs who hope to get the best deal...
Freelance. The word derives from footloose knights willing to defend any castle for a fee, and it still rings romantically. Today's deskbound journalist dreams of breaking the shackles, telling off the boss, and striking out on his own. He will decide what to write, how to write it and when to write it. Freed from the confines of a newspaper or magazine, he will fulfill the creativity he has so long suppressed as an organization...
Died. Mohamed ben Laden, 53, Saudi Arabian construction king who could neither read nor write but whose computer-like memory for figures lifted him from laborer to Aramco construction boss in his mid-thirties, whereupon he quit to form his own company and with the late King Ibn Saud's patronage built $500 million worth of airfields, dams and highways throughout his nation; of injuries in the crash of his de Havilland DH-125 executive jet; near Khamis Mushait, Saudi Arabia...
Died. Ernest Henderson, 70, co-founder and for 30 years boss of Sheraton Hotels, world's largest chain; of a heart attack; in Boston. Sparely built and quiet, Henderson and his Harvarc roommate, Robert Moore, started oui in 1919 with a small import and radio business, then during the Depression gambled $10,000 to buy a faltering Boston investment firm; by taking advantage of low prices, they gobbled up properties that totaled $30 million by 1939-including Boston's Sheraton, which became the namesake of an evergrowing chain of businessmen-oriented hotels that today numbers...
...held by Bonchy Cohen and his brother-in-law. Bonchy runs the show, though he is self-deprecating about his role in the company's 55-year performance. "What attracted you to the industry, Mr. Cohen?" he asks himself aloud. Then he replies: "My father was the boss." Bonchy 's father, David, immigrated to London from Vilna (now in the U.S.S.R.), where, at the age of nine, he was set to work in a cap factory by his father, who spent his own days studying at a synagogue. David mar ried a fellow capmaker, Betsy Pushkin...