Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fisher got involved because he met a man at a party four years ago. The man was Jeremiah Gumbs, a New Jersey businessman born on Anguilla. When Anguilla achieved its de facto independence, in May of this year, Gumbs was asked to seek out an international lawyer and, realizing he had met one, contacted Fisher, at Harvard Law School where he teaches...
...these sections it's the same Beatles who mocked the businessman in A Hard Day's Night with "give us a kiss". Here and there, things are still fun; but everywhere else it's a violiny, morbid picture of the degrading lives that England's eggmen--everyone from the hippies to the cops to the worker in the corporation teashirt--are falling into...
...with the text of a one-act farce interspersed, so that when we read: "Three toes! Count 'em! Three toes the guy's got missing!", we see a man on his knees holding up three fingers and peering at a foot that juts into the photograph. Or when the businessman who happens to have his foot stuck in the sidewalk says to himself, in Oral Roberts style, "Take up thy foot and WALK!", we see a "Walk" traffic signal against a skyscraper background. All of which is more clever than profound, but fun nonetheless...
...aircraft business needs extra cash more than he does. The company was founded back in 1948 by Al Mooney, who raised a small amount of capital to build the "Mooney Mite," a durable, single-engine one-seater. Trouble was, Mooney proved to be a better aeronautical engineer than businessman. Learning that the aircraft maker was hopelessly in debt, Rachal decided to take "a calculated risk." In 1954, on the night before Mooney planned to file for involuntary bankruptcy, Rachal and a brother-in-law, Norman Hoffman, came forth with $225,000 to rescue the company...
...First Step. Much to their dismay, the airlines have discovered that many a businessman who had been counted on to pay full fare has learned to juggle his travel to take advantage of the cut-rate schedules. TWA figures that $20 million worth of business that otherwise would have produced full fares will be diverted to discount fares this year, adding only $16.7 million to revenues. "In this respect, we've been our own worst enemies," says Executive Vice President G. Ray Woody of National Airlines. Despite a 17% rise in total operating revenues, the nation's eleven...