Word: supervisoral
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to Lee Tibbs, the park director, the park supervisor made the decision to send out the plane when he realized someone was climbing alone. Though Yates claims he was in full view and can't understand how the plane missed him, it did. Since there were no tracks leading down the mountain and since they couldn't spot him from the air, park authorities assumed that Yates was injured. It was then that they decided to call in the helicopter...
...agers and even children, were armed with machine guns, rifles and handguns. Dozens were killed as they fumbled with unfamiliar clips and bolts. Zealous militants set up classes in weaponry at Tehran University. Captured army trucks filled with newly armed youths went careening through the city. When a woman supervisor of a Tehran orphanage told her young charges to get rid of their guns before they got hurt, one boy snapped, "Why should we hand them over to the mullahs...
Romac began letting its employees decide their own wages in 1974, after a second attempt by the Teamsters to unionize the plant was only narrowly defeated. The management began posting on the bulletin board both monthly production figures and the wages of all workers up to plant supervisor. The idea was that employees could see the output trends, figure how much the company could afford and decide who deserved the most. Says President Manford McNeil, whose salary of "more than $25,000" is set by the board of directors: "The workers are bound to have a better idea...
After agonizing for eight months, Webster announced a cautious decision. He fired two supervisors. They are Horace Beckwith, who headed Squad 47, and Brian Murphy, a Beckwith aide who, according to Webster, gave answers "unworthy of belief to questions about the burglaries. Another former supervisor, Charles Lunsford, was demoted for giving what Webster termed "evasive and inconsistent" answers. Suspended for 30 days was former Supervisor Gerard Hogan, for installing a listening device without a warrant. Two agents received wrist-tapping letters of censure. The other members of Squad 47 were not punished...
DIED. George Moscone, 49, mayor of San Francisco; of bullet wounds, after allegedly being shot by a disgruntled former member of the city's board of supervisors who is also accused of shooting and killing Supervisor Harvey Milk, San Francisco's first acknowledged homosexual official; in his city hall office (see NATION...