Word: brokering
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...office in rural Maidenhead, Insurance Broker John Dobbin opened his London Times last week, scanned the big story from Moscow, and reached apprehensively for a list of his clients. He breathed a sigh of relief. Of the ten British and U.S. diplomats who had been declared persona non grata by the Soviet government, none had insured his stay in Moscow with J. N. Dobbin...
Piero (Alain Delon), for example, a young stock broker, is hardly a "spontaneous" character, as the Brattle's blurb states. Whenever we see him, he is putting on a show--in the Stock Exchange, in his car, in his office. He might be watching himself in a mirror...
...79th birthday. > Told his midweek press conference that he was "not hopeful" about the prospects for a nuclear test ban agreement with Russia. > Let it be known that he had rented his new seven-bedroom ranch house on Rattlesnake Mountain for the summer to A. Dana Hodgdon, a Washington broker, for a reported $1,000 a month. > Appointed his sometime Harvard classmate, Benjamin A. Smith II, to be chairman of the U.S. delegation at next month's North Pacific Fisheries Conference (U.S., Canada, Japan). Smith was the friend whom Kennedy picked to hold his old Senate seat...
...major mass-producer is Don Clayton, 37, of Fayetteville, N.C. An insurance mortgage broker nine years ago, he built his first course during an ulcer-enforced vacation, added a second within weeks, and took in around $13,000 during his first year of business. Clayton's Putt-Putt Golf Courses Inc. has more than 350 courses going in 36 states (plus Panama, Japan, Okinawa and Canada), and he expects to add 45 more this year. Cost per course is from $6,500 to $44,000, plus the standard $200 franchise fee and a straight 3% of the gross...
...arbitrary about his background as he used to be about his name. Born some 58, 59 or 60 years ago in Jaroslau, Austria (now Poland), he studied at the University of Vienna, went to work as a "Young Pioneer" in Palestine. Sensing greater profits elsewhere, Spiegel became a cotton broker, traveled to the U.S. on business. In Hollywood he so charmed M-G-M Producer Paul Bern that Bern put him under contract as reader and adviser...