Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the moment that New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison dealt himself into the Kennedy assassination controversy last fall, he has forced up the ante with one bizarre theory after another. First he announced a plot involving New Orleans Businessman Clay Shaw, ex-Airline Pilot David Ferrie and Lee Harvey Oswald, eventually linking them with Jack Ruby. Later he charged that a murder team of anti-Castro Cubans had planned the killing, using Oswald as a decoy. Next Big Jim claimed that the CIA and FBI were aware of these plots and were covering up. So, too, he said, were...
...pure drama - and implausibility - neither of those victories came close to matching the upset engineered by a 23-year-old Puerto Rican named Charles Pasarell. Son of a wealthy Santurce businessman, "Charlito" Pasarell is the reigning U.S. indoor champion, the No.3-ranked player in the nation, and the possessor of a big serve that he boldly calls "the Bomb." Yet Pasarell's game is as erratic as it is flashy. "I've beaten just about everybody in the world," he admits, "but I've been beaten by just about everybody too." He was not even named...
...hardly enough to explain the imaginative wisdom behind the purchase of the Trotsky papers. Metcalf recognized the immense historical value in obtaining the archives of a practicing revolutionary and when he learned that the papers were available he went out to look for money. He found a wealthy businessman, an alumnus, who was strongly interested in anti-communism, and Metacalf decided to tackle him. With the $10,000 he obtained Metcalf was able to make Trotsky an acceptable offer...
...Amos Force, the crusty, vengeful newspaper publisher in Edwin O'Connor's The Last Hurrah. Choate's vision of the role of the Herald and the Traveler in Boston would never have allowed him to cease so arbitrarily the publication of one or the other. But Akerson is a businessman, not a visionary, and for him the profit and loss sheet determines the length of a paper's life. The Traveler, whatever its value as a voice, was just losing too much money...
...brightest gleams in the eye of the aircraft industry, is having a bit of trouble. Of the 25,000 corporate-owned planes now flying, only about 350 are jets. And with the past year's tight money, lower profits and suspension of the investment tax credit, many a businessman concluded that a private jet was an extra that his company could do without...