Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon Ads. The mood in the more traditionally conservative states in the region is not much different. Many staunch Maine Republicans have left the fold. Says William McKeen, a Brunswick, Me., businessman who is running for the town council: "I voted and campaigned for the guy, but I wish they'd get rid of him now. If there are just seven tapes, then he should have said so long ago." Adds Mrs. Norman Kinney, a Vermont housewife: "Vermont is a strong Republican state. That so many people hate Nixon says something, I think...
Saez, 60, is an engineer turned economic consultant who has a reputation for hard work and cold-blooded toughness. Leniz, 46, a feline figure who was publisher of El Mercuric, a conservative Santiago newspaper, is a shrewd businessman. Saenz, 38, who resembles Henry Kissinger, is a former director of a private economic-development group. "Chile," he says, "will have to sacrifice to save itself...
Shortly after three radicals and a liberal mayor were elected to the Berkeley City Council in April, 1971, one local businessman predicted domination of local elections by student radicals would be the wave of the future...
...other disputed claims. The Iowa-born son of a country doctor, he entered the University of Southern California Law School after his parents moved to Long Beach. In private practice, Ball soon earned a reputation for a phenomenal memory. In a case involving a dispute over a Greek businessman's will, a family retainer told the court through an interpreter that the deceased had once said of a nephew: "I am scared he will kill me." Remembering his classical Greek from college days, Ball suggested that the proper translation could be: "I am afraid my relations will bear...
Lowry started most promisingly as a son of a rich Liverpool businessman. The senior Lowry and his other sons were interested in sports and moneymaking. Malcolm's own view of his childhood was far from sanguine, and quite possibly exaggerated. He blamed his later difficulties on such things as insensitive parents, a sadistic nanny, and locker-room ridicule aimed by school chums at his genitalia...