Word: businessman
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...Atlanta Steel Band, made up of a dozen Negro and white teenagers, pounds its converted oil drums in racially troubled neighborhoods. Formed two months ago by a suburban white businessman and trained by a steel-band leader from the Virgin Islands, the group is one of the most successful enterprises of Atlanta's Youth Opportunity Program, which is supported by city, federal and private money...
...November, his opponent will be Republican Businessman Charles Bernard of Earle (pop. 2,896), who has lots of Governor Winthrop Rockefeller's money behind him, but little else. Rockefeller himself won renomination over token opposition...
Stein's success as a businessman is all the more remarkable for the fact that his original calling was ophthalmology. A graduate of both the University of Chicago and Rush Medical College, Stein helped finance his education first by organizing a band in which he played "schmaltz" violin and saxophone, later by arranging dance-hall bookings for other bands. In 1924, Dr. Stein founded the Music Corporation of America as a band-booking agency, found the sideline so profitable that he decided to abandon medicine. Over the years he moved into management of talent in radio and films, succeeded...
...want to rest between flights. The Hilton's "Day-Hour Plan" ($12 for the first three hours, $3 an hour thereafter), which went into effect last week, is a logical next step. It is intended to make life easier and less expensive for today's jet-borne businessman, who often zips in and out of two or three cities in a single day. Now, in New York at least, he can rent a place to hold private business meetings or relax between engagements without paying the full 24-hour tariff. The Hilton's Day-Hour Plan should...
Even the platform which the resolutions committee drafted, though admittedly a great deal more moderate than the so-called "Goldwater platform" of 1964, is a confused document, as platforms always are. And in calling for "de-Americanization" of the left than the average businessman-delegate to the Miami Convention. In any case, platforms don't influence candidates much, and front-runner Richard Nixon said Saturday he would not be willing to concede more than President Johnson has already given in an effort to get the bombing stopped...