Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Balke and Rhinelander Dagmar Dreger are among Manhattan's highest-paid models. German mannequins are in equally great demand in Paris; most of them came to France originally as domestic servants, although one of the most noted, Brigitte Laaf, is the daughter of a wealthy Cologne businessman...
From the Soviet side, walking between two Russian plainclothesmen, came London Businessman Greville Wynne, 45, who last May had been sentenced to eight years as a spy. From the British side came Konon Trofimovich Molody, 40, alias Gordon Lonsdale, who had been sentenced in 1961 to 25 years on the same charge. Wynne and Molody merely glanced at each other. To the British agents, Wynne said, "Good morning. I'm glad to see you." Then, unable to contain himself, he flung his arms around them. The London Times, not sharing Wynne's elation, grumbled that Britain was getting...
...most exciting of the new jets is the sleek Lear Jet (cost: $575,000), which cruises at 530 m.p.h. and can outclimb an F-100 fighter plane to 10,000 ft. Builder William Lear Sr. calls it "the fighting businessman's jet." He has firm orders for 21, hopes to start delivery at the rate of eight monthly by year's end. Among his customers: Rexall, Kroehler and German Steel Baron Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza...
...situation. Some of the metamorphoses that Communism has undergone may have begun as tactical moves which in effect make Communism more attractive, but may end up meaning more-for example, Yugoslavia's compromises with free enterprise, the Italian Communist Party's championship of the small businessman...
...committee to study the problem. Norfolk, which was in the midst of an effort to transform itself into something better than a sleazy shore-leave resort for 70,000 sailors, gave the project enthusiastic support. It took time. But by 1960, the bridge commission, headed by Eastern Shore Businessman Lucius Kellam, had floated a $200 million bond issue, and construction began...