Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well as loud. He is accused of insufficient sympathy for fellow blacks; yet he unobtrusively gives away thousands of dollars every year to black, Indian and Mexican-American community groups. He sometimes likes to come on like just another impulsive free-spending jock; actually, he is a shrewd businessman (land development) who just may make good on an ambition to become baseball's first black team owner...
With financial support from private foundations, the Episcopal Church and United Church of Christ, Businessman Ronald Grzywinski, 38, bought control of the bank last August and promised to use its assets to salvage declining neighborhoods. Grzywinski and Bank President Milton Davis, 40, have lengthened the bank's hours, added more employees to prevent long lines at tellers' windows, and raised interest rates on savings accounts. This quarter, the bank will show its first gain in six years, and has an nounced plans for a development corpo ration to help save the decaying South Shore...
Impact Felt. A similar organization has been started among Stanford alumni, spearheaded by Lowell W. Barry, a wealthy retired businessman. Called the New Founders League, it has-among other things-raised a ruckus over the showing of porno films on campus and a fraternity raffle of a nude dancer. Says Barry: "Some things like that happen on almost any campus, but there was a tendency, before our impact was felt, to be entirely too indifferent...
EDWARD COOPER doesn't like his job because he's an artist as well as a businessman. When his wife died four years ago, he took the position of director of a non-profit art gallery because he "had nothing better to do." Now, he works overtime without pay. He drinks too much instant coffee by day and gin and tonics at night to get him through...
Only in the Ohio Democratic Senate primary did the predicted pattern hold up. At stake was nomination for the seat vacated by Republican William Saxbe when he became U.S. Attorney General. Millionaire Businessman Howard Metzenbaum, 56, serving temporarily by appointment, was challenged by John Glenn, 52, the retired astronaut and Marine colonel who is now a franchise partner in five Holiday Inns. When the two last competed for a Senate nomination in 1970, Metzenbaum, with eight years' experience as a state legislator and an efficient, well-financed campaign, beat Glenn. Metzenbaum then lost in the general election to Robert...