Word: businessman
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...Dirty Work. Many responsible Swiss and most of the nation's press deplore the new inhospitality. "Telling Europeans to go back to Europe is the best proof that we are still living in the world of the past," says one Geneva businessman ruefully. The Gazette de Lausanne pointed out that the foreigners are in Switzerland in large part because the Swiss want somebody else to do the "servile or dirty work, and prefer white-collar and clean-hand jobs," and, if the foreigners are expelled, the Swiss will be the first to suffer. Syndicalisme blasted the ousters as "Helvetic...
Founded in 1959 by President William T. Hughes, a Whittier, Calif., businessman, in cooperation with some of his local fellow Rotarians, the school has thus far organized three floating semesters, and is planning a fourth, beginning next October. Courses include the standard liberal arts and sciences, plus "Advanced Fundamental Skills," which teaches "swimming, dancing, weight training, judo, wrestling, fencing," and Course 300, a "historical overview of the European origin of sports, games and gymnastics." The daily schedule of five hours of classwork had its problems. "You'd be writing an exam, and your chair would be sliding across...
...credit, and no fewer than 11,774 new aces were recorded in 1964 alone. The odds against just any amateur's getting one are computed at 6,000 to 1. But the lightning can strike willy-nilly. Last year's initiates included an 84-year-old retired businessman from California (No. 8 iron, 110-yd. hole), a nine-year-old Little Leaguer from North Carolina (No. 3 iron, 157-yd. hole), and a Texas housewife who was eight months pregnant when she dubbed a No. 6-iron shot into the cup on a 125-yd. hole...
...Vice Presidents, respectively, under Hayes, Monroe, McKinley, Grant. *Holding Bible, Humphrey's longtime friend, Minneapolis Businessman Fred Gates. *Luci, the White House disclosed last week, "has been taking instruction in the Roman Catholic faith." The President is a member of the Disciples of Christ, but the two Johnson daughters and Lady Bird are Episcopalians. Since "the family considers religion a personal and individual matter," the White House provided no further details, but was careful to point out that Luci's taking instruction does not necessarily mean that she intends to become a convert. Paul Betz, who "pinned...
...knowing why Rudolph couldn't proceed faster on the installation of traffic signals. As Rudolph explained them his difficulties are twofold. First, he is overburdened with routine work. For example, he said, just several weeks ago, one of his new traffic patterns in Brattle Square had angered a local businessman so much that the Director had to make a special study of the Brattle area. And, then, he continued, during every snow-storm he is faced with the minor crisis of clearing Cambridge's streets and getting traffic moving. These excuses seemed weak...