Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After a week of shuttling between an American businessman's home near the golf course of St.-Nom-la-Bretêche and a Communist-occupied villa at Gifsur-Yvette, Presidential Aide Henry Kissinger last week summed up his talks with Hanoi's Le Due Tho in two words: "Significant progress." He declined to disclose details, but it was known that his main effort had been to work out a strict schedule of adherence to the Viet Nam ceasefire. (One major problem: the North Vietnamese demand for the release of all political prisoners in the South...
...businessman who is at the top of his company has to be able to figure out what's going on," says Donald Frey, chairman of Bell & Howell, a Republican who now considers himself "neutral." In corporations as in Government, several officials note, executive assistants sometimes give orders in the chief's name without his knowledge -but if an assistant gets his superior in trouble by taking the boss's name in vain, he is booted out immediately, with no expressions of regret. Says a New York textile maker, who once discovered that an overzealous assistant was tapping...
...much for the romantic image. In fact, Milton Starr (he's the one with the pipe--the other is his assistant, Ernest Morrell) is the epitome of the self-made businessman. He always refers to selling books as "the business...
...practice to become chairman of the board in 1961. When Post Publisher Philip Graham died two years later, Beebe assumed control of the firm until Graham's widow and the Post Co.'s principal stockholder, Katharine Meyer Graham, was able to take charge. A shrewd businessman and sensitive employer, Beebe guided the company's expansion into television, book publishing and part ownership of the international Herald Tribune...
...Meanwhile, he is trying to pull in passengers for Caledonian's daily New York-London and five-day-a-week New York-Los Angeles flights by touting Caledonian's service (baggage handlers, the ads claim, take extra care with luggage, and stewardesses will sharpen pencils for the businessman doing work aloft) and Scottish image. Airplanes are named after Scottish counties and haggis is served to first-class passengers. "After all," Thomson says, "there are millions of people of Scottish descent in the United States...