Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wreathed polyethylene plant at Rumanian Ploesti; the scorching debate over Camus at Budapest's Hungaria Restaurant; the clanking Skoda automobile factory outside Prague; the student jazz joint in Warsaw where frugging and free verse give the lie to socialist realism. This is also the domain of the Western businessman, of the 500 Western firms which are engaged in cooperative ventures worth $800 million in Eastern Europe, and which will do many times that amount of business in the years ahead...
...years ago, the bulk of the business came from Americans abroad, but now most of it is done with wealthy foreign citizens or institutional investors. In Germany the typical customer is a local businessman or professional man who plunks close to $30,000 into the U.S. market. Such investors are attracted to Wall Street partly because they can get far more relevant information about U.S. companies than about indigenous corporations, even though European firms are becoming somewhat less secretive about their operations. Says a Bache salesman in Paris: "We can tell a Frenchman what we think General Motors will earn...
...that are typical of racing in Panama. Between 1956 and 1960 he won 912 races-about one-third of all the races in the country. Then, in February of 1960, on a visit to Hialeah, he ran into Chuck Parke, trainer of a string of thoroughbreds owned by Florida Businessman Fred Hooper. "I knew he was great the first time I put him on a horse," recalls Parke. "I told him to breeze a colt five furlongs in 1 min. 2 sec., and when I looked at my watch I couldn't believe it. It read exactly...
...anything, his stock has risen as a result of his feud with Lyndon Johnson, whose civil rights policies are not popular in Arkansas. Said a Little Rock businessman last week: "Bill has laid the gauntlet down and said, 'I'm going to say what I think.' A great body of people around here will defend him for that, even if they feel he's wrong." Adds James Powell, editorial-page editor of the Arkansas Gazette: "Fulbright got a lot of sympathetic reaction to Lyndon's blackballing him socially. That makes a lot of people...
...trouble with this model," he continued, "is that there is no pluralistic balance of forces--there is no victory and defeat." Furthermore, he added, the model does not acknowledge that the U.S. is an imperialist, power. "We want peace in which the world is safe for the American businessman to do his business everywhere...