Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the July loss of $80 million was the lowest all year. This interim success has deeply impressed skeptical European bankers, who doubt that their own businessmen would put patriotism over profits. Of course, the Government has such great powers over private business that it would take a brave businessman indeed not to "volunteer" to help. Though Fowler warns that the gains may be only temporary and that further tightening of discipline is necessary, he believes that the U.S. is on its way to solving its payments problem. Says he: "The U.S. economy and its agent, the dollar, are overwhelmingly...
HIGH INFIDELITY. The perils of extra-marital dalliance are polished off ever so lightly in a four-part Italian comedy dominated by a jealous but accessible wife (Monica Vitti), a discreet businessman (Nino Manfredi) and other stray mates...
Frank Sinatra cannot help it. His protests notwithstanding, he does things the noticeable way. Tired after a recent concert tour, Frank announced that he needed a month-long vacation and chartered the Southern Breeze, a 168-ft. yacht owned by Houston Businessman C. W. Edwards, for a reported $2,000 a day. Mostly he asked people his own age-respectable Hollywood matrons such as Claudette Colbert, Merle Oberon, Rosalind Russell, and their husbands. He also invited Mia Farrow, 20-year-old daughter of Actress Maureen O'Sullivan and the late Director John Farrow. The ensuing voyage was probably...
...other hand, a man is apt to know his nonreading habits only too well. In the eyes of the overworked businessman or scientist whose leisure-time intake during the past year has consisted of The Spy Who Came In from the Cold and 94 pages of The Group, even the lip-moving fellow commuter who mumbles his way through a Leon Uris novel is someone to be regarded with awe. The nonreading executive often feels like an Edgar Allan Poe character who is slowly but surely being sealed off from the rest of the world by a wall of unread...
...Esso. The average member of the board of management of a big German company may make a salary of about $50,000. The biggest German salaries are in the auto indus try, topped by an estimated $250,000 paid to Daimler-Benz's Walter Hitzinger. Only one German businessman exceeds the magic million-marks-a-year ($250,000) salary ceiling: Christian Kracht, 44, top manager for Press Magnate Axel Springer...