Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Visitor from Mamaroneck, a relentlessly chirpy wife indulges in a scatterbrained fit of sentimental nostalgia. She revisits the scene of her honeymoon-but was it 23, or 24 years ago? -with secret hopes of reigniting the ardors of early love. Her husband is a taut rather than tired businessman who has kept his eye on his weight and his secretary. The wife has suspected as much: "You were working three nights a week-we weren't getting any richer." She seems put out that her husband had no more enterprise than to pick his secretary as bedmate. Along with...
...Waiting Game. Undeterred, Savoretti returned to Moscow two years later, this time to stay. In 1956, he became the first Western businessman in residence, doggedly making the rounds of Soviet officials and fighting the gloom of Moscow hotel life. On the strength of his contacts,^ he came to arrange tours for more and more Soviet trader delegations to visit Italy...
...Colonel Oleg Penkovsky of Soviet military intelligence funneled out to the West a steady stream of Moscow's most vital secrets. His side of the story was recounted in The Penkovsky Papers, published in 1965. Contact on Gorky Street is the autobiographical account of the British businessman, recruited by British intelligence, who befriended Penkovsky in Moscow and became his conduit to the West. The book is far more chilling than any of the fictional adventures of James Bond or Harry Palmer...
...Hague, which is part of his diocese. Although the developer who bought Rotterdam's Catholic cathedral has received a few letters warning that he will "be fried in hell," Rotterdammers have generally taken the razing in stride. "The bishop," says one Catholic merchant, "is a first-class businessman." A second Dutch prelate, Bishop Hubertus Ernst of Breda, is now planning to demolish his 19th century cathedral for similar reasons...
...father in The Price, a wealthy businessman ruined in the '29 crash, has been dead for 28 years. During the Depression, one son, Vic (Pat Hingle), elected to stay and help support the old man by joining the police force, thus sacrificing his ambitions, his college degree and a potentially promising scientific career. The other son, Walter (Arthur Kennedy), left home and became an eminent surgeon. Estranged for all that time, the two brothers have not seen or spoken to each other for 16 years. Now the cop has summoned the surgeon so that they can make a mutual...