Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Albania-respectively, the most accessible and least accessible nations in the Communist world today. Armed guards on the Albanian side open the gate for authorized visitors, then bolt it behind them with a heavy padlock. Last week Roland Flamini of TIME's Vienna bureau, traveling as a "businessman" on a British passport, flew to Dubrovnik in Yugoslavia, where he joined a guided tour that took him to Albania for a two-day visit. His report...
...lead a cohesive California delegation to the 1968 Republican National Convention as the favorite-son candidate. A primary squabble could well disrupt that effort. Then there is Kuchel's value to California as the party whip and ranking Republican on the Interior Committee. As a Los Angeles businessman pointed out: "The state gets 25% of its gross product from the Federal Government. Conservative businessmen are realists. They understand that Kuchel works well with the powers in the Senate and knows his way around the Federal Establishment...
...Paris (with precisely informed history lectures from the young ladies), shopping excursions that range from a Dior boutique to the Flea Market, as well as even more individualized aid, such as locating a race horse for two Germans to buy, arranging a female golfing partner for a Taiwan businessman, finding a secretary who can take shorthand in Turkish, and accompanying one client to the infamous Olympia Press bookstore, where he browsed happily and finally selected Whipping Incorporated and The Sex Life of Robinson Crusoe...
Divorced. Edgar N. Eisenhower, 78, Tacoma lawyer and businessman, older (by two years) brother of Ike; and Lucille Dawson Eisenhower, 46, his third wife and former law secretary; on grounds of "a burdensome home life"; after 16 years of marriage, no children; in Tacoma, Wash...
...center of the cast is James Burden Day, a Roosevelt-hating conservative Senator from the Southwest and contender for the presidential nomination. The characters, moving woodenly through a familiar plot about political chicanery, include the usual domineering millionaire publisher, the conniving businessman who keeps Senators in his pocket, the venal journalist, the young idealist, the Communist-turned-anti-Communist, and droves of beautiful, compliant women. Almost everyone is a villain, and Vidal seems to dislike his characters even more than the reader is bound to. The author recently observed that American politicians "create illusions and call them facts." Washington attempts...