Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chicago these days, the visiting businessman has plenty of time for business. By edict of Police Superintendent Orlando Wilson, the once racy North Side is as dead as Gomorrah. Calumet City, thanks to another crusading police chief, has only darkened flesh parlors to show for its long career as Chicago's sin suburb. Even Al Capone's Cicero has quieted down. No matter. If he insists on drinking life to the lees, the conventioneer can still find paradise enow an hour away in Gary or East Chicago, across the state line in Indiana's gamy, grimy Lake...
Died. Roger D. Lapham, 82, businessman-politician who in the 1930s, as president of the American-Hawaiian Steamship line, won the grudging respect of Harry Bridges' West Coast dockers for his tough, fair-minded negotiations, a quality that helped him as mayor of San Francisco (1944-48), where he successfully cleaned out entrenched machine politics, but failed to secure for the city the permanent location of the U.N.; after a fall; in San Francisco...
...THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIE (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). A Majority of One, in which Sir Alec Guinness plays a Japanese businessman, and Rosalind Russell a Jewish widow from Brooklyn...
...stand on the Little Rock integration riots, became a candidate for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination to succeed six-term Incumbent Orval Faubus, 56, who says (not for the first time) that he is retiring. Other Democrats in the race include Segregationist State Supreme Court Justice Jim Johnson, 41, and Businessman Winston Chandler, 46. However, Hays's chief rival for the nomination is expected to be the man who ousted him from Congress, Little Rock Oculist Dale Alford, 50, who has yet to announce. The Democratic nominee will face Arkansas' Mr. Republican, Millionaire Rancher Winthrop Rockefeller, brother...
...Adventurers' international-jet-set subjects would confound a Zola. In the hands of Robbins they become like the projections of CinemaScope: highly colored, nine times larger than life, and relentlessly two-dimensional. One of the projections is Diogenes ("Dax") Xenos, diplomat, soldier, businessman, patriot, politician, international satyr and unintentional satire. Dax is to women what Dash is to washing machines: he makes them feel ten feet tall. His sometime pals, a French playboy and a White Russian con man, are not far behind in their technique: one of them receives a gold cigarette case from a female admirer inscribed...