Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they share with their mother country: literature, music, food, customs, religion, sports from bullfighting to fútbol and, since Spain is only now industrializing, many of the same economic problems. Says a Spanish consulting engineer with many contracts in Latin America: "There's no doubt the Spanish businessman in South America is being looked at in an entirely new light. We've had to come up with solutions with only limited means, so we're close to similar local problems. And, after all, we speak the same language...
Because the Pacific Coast was conspicuously underrepresented in the Cabinet word went out to dig up a California businessman. Someone suggested J. Edward Day of Prudential Insurance. Day, a man of rollicking humor, had been Adlai Stevenson's Insurance Commissioner in Illinois, before moving to the West. His credentials appeared good, and his rather hasty appointment on December 17 completed the Kennedy Cabinet...
...Businessman-Showman...
Harold Smith Prince, 37, has struck his bonanza in one of the roughest, toughest, least tractable businesses: the Broadway theater. A combination businessman-showman, he has produced or co-produced ten hit musicals- including Damn Yankees, West Side Story, Fiorello! and Fiddler On The Roof -that have earned $5,300,000 and brought him a personal worth of just over $1,000,000. Hal Prince has precisely the right balance of creativity, charm and salesmanship that makes a successful producer. "It's a terrible shame if you're born the brightest guy in your class," he says...
...more and more U.S.-type goods and services. Recently, Americans abroad have begun to launch everything from "heel bars" for Europeans with worn-down shoes to recruiting firms for U.S. businesses seeking European managers for overseas. In many parts of Latin America, Asia and Africa, the risk-taking businessman will find waiting markets for housing and manufactured goods, can get attractive investment guarantees from the U.S. Agency for International Development...