Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years, has decided to tear down its cavernous Santiago Bernabeu Stadium and build a smaller one. Spaniards are turning to more expensive diversions and status symbols. Madrid now supports 19 legitimate theaters, plus a selection of chic new "theater clubs," exclusive establishments where the up-and-coming young businessman can be seen while he watches the show. Scores of elegant new restaurants and bars have opened in the past few years, and they are always packed to their polished oak rafters with an ever expanding jet set, whom Spaniards call hi-lifers (pronounced hee-leefairs). Grandest...
Drum majorettes are the feature at the Albion, cowgirls at the Las Vegas, and at the Transistor Cutie Club a bevy of "teeny-weeny wonders" all under five feet tall are trained to peer up tactfully at the businessman in elevator shoes. All told, Tokyo's clubs gross some $1,500,000 a night. From Christmas week through the New Year, they count on trebling that take...
...better man to watch is Robert Winters, 55, a longtime Pearson friend and new Minister of Trade and Commerce. Tall and handsome, Winters is a successful businessman-politician with credentials that make him a man of admired organizational ability. Canadians remember him as the youngest member of Louis St. Laurent's Cabinet in the late 1940s and early '50s; he then left politics to take over the presidency of the Rio Tinto Mining Co. of Canada, Ltd., and only re-entered politics this fall at Pearson's pleading...
...spare time, Mrs. Ruth Kasper of Pennside, Pa., managed to collect 800 Ibs. of pretzels. In Dubuque, Iowa, Businessman John Walsh and eleven friends in five weeks rounded up enough books, cigarettes, candy, peanuts and soap to fill 3,500 cartons. Boston's Christmas Festival Committee, which is usually preoccupied with decorating the Common in late fall, raised $3,000 to buy gift packages from the city's fanciest grocer, S.S. Pierce. In Richmond, a neighborhood civic association passed the hat, bought 1,656 fruitcakes. A Charleston, W. Va., record-store owner asked teen-agers for their...
About 200 such complexes are being planned or built. They offer a businessman greater mobility than even today's frequent airline flights allow, enable him to land right where his business is, bypassing airports, taxis and traffic. Industrial airparks are commonest in the West and Southwest (Texas already has at least 70), but others are in operation or being planned near such places as St. Louis, Cleveland, Cape Kennedy and Washington...