Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...body first appeared on a sleepy Saturday afternoon in mid-July. A Dutch businessman driving home from work spotted it on the sidewalk outside the house at No. 17 Prince Maurice Lane, a stately residential avenue in The Hague. He stopped. The street was deserted. He ran to the house to get help. No answer. He went next door, asked to use the telephone, and called the police. When he went out to the street again, the body was gone...
Welthy* Fisher first went to Asia 60 years ago. The daughter of a Rome, N.Y., Methodist businessman, she took a job as headmistress of a missionary school for girls in Nanchang, China. When she was 43, she married the Methodist Bishop of India and Burma, Frederick Fisher, and through him came to know Mohandas Gandhi. She first met the Mahatma in 1926, sat with him for five hours while he meditated. Years after she was widowed and just before his own death, Gandhi urged her to go to work in India's villages...
...Characin, whose Latin handle is Cheirodon axelrodi. Among the most expensive is the brown Discus, or Symphysodon aequifasciata axelrodi, for which hobbyists pay $300 for a breeding pair. Both of these, as well as about two dozen other varieties of tropical fish, are named for a burly, sometimes surly, businessman-scientist named Herbert R. Axelrod. At 39, Dr. Axelrod has been the supreme sage on tropical fish for so long that many people imagine he is in his 70s. As the largest breeder and seller of tropical fish in the world, he has amassed a personal fortune that makes...
...trim 190 Ibs., Ted Etherington looks like central casting's image of a dynamic businessman. Son of a New York public accountant, he graduated from Wesleyan in 1948, taught English there for a year, then went on to Yale Law School. Etherington served for a year as clerk to a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals, later went to work for a Wall Street law firm that specialized in investment problems. Eventually he moved on to serve as secretary and vice president of the Big Board under Funston. He was named head of Amex...
...Bank of England. This meant that another $280 million would go into reserve; the move, along with the higher bank rate, had an almost instantaneous effect on the British economy. Bankers hiked interest rates on business loans to as much as 8%, a figure to frighten away many a businessman looking for money. A sharp drop is anticipated in installment buying. Homeowners, whose mortgage rates go up and down with the bank rate, now face increases in their mortgage payment. The total effect will be a belt tightener for England, whose foreign trade balance sagged another $295 million in June...