Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Angeles Businessman Norton Simon plunges into his backyard swimming pool three times a day, but that is about the only way he ever plunges. Working from a base that includes California's $400 million Hunt Foods & Industries and heavy investments in salad oil, matches, paint and publishing (McCall's), Simon plans his moves with the care and strategy of a Clausewitz. West Virginia's Wheeling Steel (1963 sales: $236 million) was surprised to find a few years back that Simon had quietly become one of its biggest stockholders, controlling 145,000 shares. Last week Norton Simon...
Fears of Regimentation. The new view will make business and Government predictions more accurate, enable a businessman to see how a change in consumer demand, Government spending or taxes will affect his own enterprise, give him a better insight into who are his customers' customers (a notoriously foggy order) and show him where he is missing markets in which his competitors are selling. It enables a paint company, for example, to figure out its sales drop on a $3 billion defense cut in missiles and aircraft. Input-output shows that the aerospace industry uses 0.2450 of paint industry materials...
...sawed-off broomstick she used to stir the family wash. As an eighth-grader, Ara was everybody's nomination for Toughest Kid in school?even the Board of Education's. "They were having a lot of trouble with vandals breaking windows," recalls Older Brother Gerard, 43, a Toledo businessman. "So they just hired Ara to patrol the grounds. The checks came directly from the Board of Education. He was real proud of that...
Inevitably they strike Western visitors as robotlike. In Canton's main park 3,000 Communist youth at a signal begin wildly cheering a Western businessman, and at another signal, just as obediently, they stop. People seem terrified to accept even the smallest gift from foreigners, evidently for fear of being tabbed as spies. Visiting coeducational Sian University, a French Deputy asks a question natural to any Frenchman: "Does the proximity of 5,000 boys and 2,000 girls pose any problems?" There are puzzled stares, and the rector replies: "What sort of problems?" The French visitor: "Sexual problems...
...display at a downtown department store. Bacon personally visited 13 public schools and encouraged schoolchildren to work up models of how they would like their local district to look. Result was a climate of enthusiasm for improvement and change that ranged through the whole community, from self-interested businessman to self-interested slum dweller...