Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...magazine deals with the question of whether scientists should promote research for its own sake without especially taking into account the greater good of society...
...truly disappointing character is Lisa Claudy's Nicole. Claudy looks like she belongs on the cover of a fashion magazine. Unfortunately, she fails to do much more justice to her character, even if one takes into account the script's peculiar lack of lines for Nicole. The lines Claudy has she delivers flatly, with hardly a trace of the storm that must brew inside a woman having a passionate affair with her younger brother...
...former colleagues away from Ford, which sacked him in July. In fact, he makes his denials with all the sincere innocence of Captain Kidd. Last week, smiling broadly, he announced that the Kenyon & Eckhardt ad agency was quitting Ford after 34 years to take on the $120 million Chrysler account. It was the largest account switch in U.S. history...
...secret were the negotiations between Iacocca and K & E Chief Leo Kelmenson that Ford executives got the news less than an hour before the public did. K&E hand-delivered a letter resigning the $75 million account, which was roughly like kicking Ford out the door at 55 m.p.h. Meanwhile, Iacocca telephoned Chrysler's previous ad agencies-Young & Rubicam, BBDO and Ross Roy-to tell their bosses that they...
...artificial legs. He liked to read the Wall Street Journal and talk of his travels to Israel, Greece and Spain. He owned an $80,000 building, containing a disco called the Red Garter, a home worth $30,000, and had $16,000 in cash, $46,000 in Washington checking accounts and $365,000 in a bond account with Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith. Then why did he go on begging? Said his banker: "I think it was a lifelong habit...