Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Committee investigators have already interviewed the publicity-shy Rebozo for five hours about the $100,000 payment. In somewhat flustered testimony, committee sources said, the Miami businessman claimed that the gift was first suggested by Hughes Executive Richard Danner and delivered to Rebozo in two equal installments, one in 1969 and one in 1970. Hughes intended the money to be used in Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign, Rebozo said. (Banner claims that the funds were earmarked for congressional candidates in the 1970 mid-term elections.) Yet for reasons that are unclear, the money was not turned over...
...come to see Sam all the time," one businessman said while watching the sidewalk artist in front of Boston City Hall. "He brightens up my day. We need a lot more of this...
...David Gottlieb who, in 1930, marketed the first coin operated bagatelle board with a tilted playing surface. he called it "Baffle Board," The machine sold for 17.50, and could be played for a mere penny. It caught on fast and soon Gottlieb's idea was copied by a Chicago businessman, Raymond Alone, who came out with his own version called "Bally-Hoo." His company, Bally Manufacturing Company, along with Gottlieb's are now two of the biggest names in the business...
...retired army officer. Maybe Charles will be beaten to the altar by Europe's youngest and newest monarch, King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden. It seems that wavy-haired Carl Gustaf, 27, may be smitten with Silvia de Toledo-Sommerlath, 25, the daughter of a wealthy, retired German businessman. They met last year at the Olympic Games in Munich, where the pretty, multilingual Silvia was the chief VIP hostess. A series of dates since, including an invitation to a royal family party, has some Swedes convinced that the King is planning to make Silvia his own hostess...
Felice Bauer's letters to Kafka have never been located. It is obvious from his later correspondence that she had despaired of any future with him. Within a short time she married a successful German businessman. For Kafka, such a conclusion had probably been clear from the beginning. By marrying he would not be gaining a wife but losing a penpal...