Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ridicule his do-gooder proclamations calling for "moral regeneration." He is criticized for putting all his friends from his home province of Pampanga into administration jobs, and the charge is hurtful because most other Filipinos think the people of Pampanga are idle, spendthrift and treacherous. Says a Manila businessman: "Filipinos elect Presidents for the sport of knocking them down...
...hair-styling by Jerry himself costs $25. About half of his clients are show biz; the rest are executives, and they are the ones that care. "A lot of actors don't worry about what they look like except when they're onstage," says Jerry. "But a businessman has to think about it all the time...
...less paradisaical. But then, there has always been a little trouble in paradise. Because almost everything has to be imported from the U.S. mainland, living costs are expensive-except for goodies that are brought in to the islands' free port to woo the tourists. Says one newly arrived businessman: "Only the luxuries are cheap. If you could live on liquor, cigarettes and perfume, you'd have it made in the Virgins...
...early era. On Berlin's Kudamm, which Christopher Isherwood would never recognize, Germans twist-and twist and twist-though they live skin-close to the Communists. In Hamburg, Max Schmeling is proud of his gleaming Coca-Cola bottling plant, where he arrives each morning like any other businessman. On the same street, kids hurry off to school, blissfully ignorant of Schmeling or Hitler or Bismarck. Then from every window appears that national German banner, the feather bed being hung...
...President has attempted to reassure businessmen about the state of the economy, he has succeeded only in impairing business confidence. To counter this "Inverse Insecurity Factor," as he calls it, McLandress devised the subliminal Sonic Support Apparatus Mark II, a miniaturized tape recorder designed to reassure the businessman by playing back the speeches of some hero figure to whom he turns mentally for inspiration in moments of insecurity. Among other "Sustaining Presences," the doctor found that Barry Goldwater, the Hoovers (J. Edgar and Herbert), the late Senator Robert A. Taft and Commodore Vanderbilt proved highly effective on different businessmen...