Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More often than not, their queries were answered fully. In Saigon, the businessmen conferred with U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker and General Creighton ("Abe") Abrams, commander of American forces in Viet Nam. As one businessman summed it up afterwards, Abrams "made no claims and promised no quick victories. He merely demonstrated that we were in control of the situation." South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu spoke with confidence about the war effort. Asked by one guest whether South Vietnamese troops would soon bear enough of the burden of fighting to allow American troops to go home, Thieu answered with emphatic brevity...
...return, many Europeans believe that the U.S. can offer Europe much beyond the shield of monetary stability and military security. As Belgian Businessman Alec Le Vernoy observed: "There is a real chance for Nixon to help us start working together in Europe ?not only in policy matters, but in our economic life, our technology, in science and business. There is much for us to do together. Maybe he can help us toward agreement on common purposes, and then we can move forward toward meeting them." Undramatic as that may be, it is the aim of Nixon's first...
...European fans makes up for the shortcomings on the court. "I get two or three letters every day from the fans," says Gary Schull. "I don't fully understand them but I get a kick out of them. See this," he says, fingering a new beaver overcoat. "Some businessman gave it to me. I never had it so good." Sometimes the hero worship gets out of hand. After a championship game in Italy three years ago, souvenir-mad fans rushed onto the court and stripped an American player right out of his shoes, socks, shirt and shorts...
...idea for a bank in Roxbury came from a Negro student at Harvard Business School, John Hayden, now 26. He wrote his master's thesis on black banking and then started buttonholing influential people, including Sneed. Businessman Sneed, who never went to college, did most of the groundwork. He advertised "the bank with a purpose" in the ghetto weekly and sold $10 shares in the venture to 3,358 small investors. Boston's National Shawmut Bank and the New England Merchants National Bank contributed advice...
Perhaps the professors' difficulties in grasping the scope and depth of this monstrous injustice stem in part from their teaching and working in a 99 per cent white university -- an elite, businessman-banker-controlled university, at that. Nonetheless, the realities of American society are such that a course on George Wallace's favorite theme -- "An End to Urban Violence" -- might just provoke some sharply negative responses from the intended victims...