Word: businessman
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Computers promise to make U.S. business far more efficient, possibly bigger, certainly more powerful. However it affects lower-echelon employment, the computer is sure torequire a new breed of top manager: men who combine the talents of the big-businessman, the public administrator and the scientific researcher. Where will such paragons come from...
...supply and demand and the necessity of competition. One of the most remarkable of the capitalistic comrades who are putting the dynamics of the free market to work under Communism is a former partisan fighter and devoted Communist named Velimir Marton. With a spirit and shrewdness that any businessman could envy, Marton took over a small meat-packing plant in the early 1950s, and has turned it into Yugoslavia's largest food company...
...Businessman Marton, who looks like a Slavonic William Holden, learned many of his economic lessons in seven trips to the U.S., and is fond of repeating such familiar free enterprise lines as "The customer is always right" and "We have to grow or die." He particularly believes the latter, and has just embarked on an ambitious plan that aims at nothing less than converting Sljeme into, as he puts it, "a Yugoslav combination of Howard Johnson's, Safeway and Swift, with a little Conrad Hilton thrown in." Marton intends to spend $50 million by 1970 to build restaurants, motels...
...appointed to the ten-member board that selects winners of the presidential Medal of Freedom, filling a vacancy left by Henry Cabot Lodge; Rodman Rockefeller, 31, Nelson's oldest son, given the Chilean Order of Merit (Dad got it in 1945) for being "the kind of private businessman whose contributions, energy and ideals are so badly needed for the right development of Latin America"; Columbia University's No-bel-Prizewinning Physicist Dr. Isidor Rabi, 65, named winner of the annual $1,000 Joseph Priestley Memorial Award for "services to mankind through physics...
Joseph C. Goodman, 73, a retired businessman from Stamford, Conn., either did not read or did not heed the warning. "He came out of the water staggering and falling," says Moore, "and he had tentacles all over his chest and his arms and legs." The third time he fell, Goodman was unconscious. Moore tried mouth-to-mouth breathing while a fellow guest, Dr. Frank Valone of Rome, N.Y., kept up closed-chest massage. Nothing worked...