Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...study of sexual mores in Sweden, conducted con brio by Alberto Sordi as a roving but forever disappointed Italian businessman...
...some aides, Roifman proceeded to convert the workshops to his own use. He brought into the scheme state factory executives from as far away as Leningrad and the Ukraine, and they shipped him 58 knitting machines-ostensibly for the rehabilitation of the mental patients. From a Moscow hosiery factory Businessman Roifman cadged a starting supply of 25 tons of waste thread; from collective sheep farms he found a way to import 50 tons of wool...
...laboratory behind a false warehouse front where his eavesdropping "genius," Ralph Bertsche, works out new gimmicks such as a high-powered bug that fits into a pack of filter-tip cigarettes. It is padded to feel soft and shows the ends of real cigarettes to reassure a suspicious businessman or divorce-prone spouse-provided he doesn't ask for a smoke. Bertsche believes that bugs in time may be no bigger than a pencil eraser, recorders as small as a cigarette lighter...
...student who plans to make his career someplace outside the academy. It has even been argured that the future academician should have an undergraduate education which is something other than a preview of what he will get in graduate school, as much as should the future doctor, lawyer, or businessman...
...Wilkins does not look like a civil rights leader. With his dark conservative suit, close-cut graying hair and gentle manner, he seems more a college professor or successful businessman than the leader of the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization. In conversation and speeches, he is soft-spoken avoiding fire-eating rhetoric. But he is persuasive. Instead of the catch-phrases by civil rights leaders. Wilkins is more apt statistics or recount historical anecdotes. When he demands action on civil rights, he never shouts "We're not asking any more, we're going to take our rights...