Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stuffiest critics. The money for that European tour was raised largely by Symphony Board Chairman Louis Sudler, as part of a campaign to publicize the board's selection of Solti. That choice was made, says Sudler, a Chicago realtor, on the basis of "just what a good businessman would do. First you get the best possible product, then you let the world know that you have the best possible product." The first dividend was a homecoming parade in 1971, arranged for the entire orchestra. It was enthusiastically promoted by Mayor Richard Daley, with Solti riding high and proud...
...once but several times, a rhetorical ghost from more than ten years ago came back voluntarily. "How's Tricky Dicky?" asked a farmer in the lobby of the bank. A few hours later a small businessman shook his head more in sadness than in anger and remarked, "Well, old Tricky Dicky is in a mess...
Miss Dunlop claimed in March that before Long died he told her that he had eaten chocolates sent to him by a businessman in Clayton, Mo. She said she and Long had dinner together just before he died, and he told her he thought he had been poisoned by the candy. It had a bitter taste, he said. According to Miss Dunlop, he later reported feeling numb in the arms and legs. The unidentified businessman denied ever sending candy to Long, police reported. Miss Dunlop failed to say why she waited four months before going to authorities and telling them...
...post of U.S. Ambassador to Moscow has been vacant for three months now, and both the Kremlin and the State Department are getting impatient for President Nixon to choose someone soon. Russian officials hope His Excellency will be a political appointee with little expertise in Soviet affairs, preferably a businessman who will devote himself to promoting trade−avoiding all ideology or messy matters like Jewish emigration and intellectual dissenters...
...private jet without telling even his top aides many of the details. Among them: just how much the agreement is worth (estimates range from $4 billion to $8 billion) and how Occidental's investment will be financed. One guess: bank loans guaranteed by the U.S. Government. Said a businessman familiar with Occidental: "Where the money comes from is still the big question...