Word: banker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last month alone, executives of 35 major U.S. corporations have been scouting São Paulo, and this week six leading Brazilian businessmen will travel to New York-at Banker David Rockefeller's behest-to talk with 100 other U.S. prospects. "Only by creating wealth," says President Castello Branco, "can we distribute it justly among all Brazilians. We intend to support and stimulate capital...
...Machines Bull, a group of financiers who had been called upon to save the French giant from losses and the prospect of nationalization selected Banker Roger Schulz, 44, to be boss. A director of the Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas, rugged and athletic Schulz has specialized in reviving comatose companies. Bull, the Continent's largest computer maker (1962 sales: $69 million) was gored by IBM and others when it tried to expand its line of small computers by building bigger models. The previous president, Joseph Callies, left under pressure after the French government vetoed his plan...
...brainy women. "My literary success," she wrote, "puzzled and embarrassed my old friends far more than it impressed them. None of my relations ever spoke to me of my books, either to praise or blame-they simply ignored them." Her marriage, at 23, to Boston Banker Edward Wharton, did not improve matters: "I was a failure in Boston because they thought I was too fashionable to be intelligent, and a failure in New York because they were afraid I was too intelligent to be fashionable...
...competition. Cornelius Shields has sold her to California Yachtsman Thomas Patrick Dougan, and her new skipper will be Walter Podolak, 50, whose 10-meter yacht Coquille dominates racing in its class along the West Coast, has won 14 of its last 15 races. And finally Easterner, Boston Banker Chandler Hovey's "family boat," will be back for one last try at yachting's Holy Grail. "We have changed the rigging," says Skipper Charles Hovey, 55, the owner's son, "the spreader has been narrowed, and also we'll use new sails...
...Managers. One shot in the revolution was fired a few months ago when a London merchant bank openly advertised in the Financial Times for a new managing director-a departure so radical that one banker felt obliged to explain: "Normally, one wouldn't advertise a real job, you see, because if a chap didn't know a job was going he wouldn't be the right sort of chap, would he?" The most startling changes have been wrought on boards where the Old Boy influence was strongest. Old-school-tie companies both, the Rank Organization and Viyella...