Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...political corruption indictments, Thompson has made shrewd use of the immunity statutes. Witnesses, who would otherwise have faced prosecution, testified freely. The most damaging testimony against County Clerk Barrett came from a Philadelphia businessman who was given immunity and admitted that he had bribed Barrett...
...tourists. At the Hoppin' John Restaurant and Bar, where tourists often debate nothing more substantial than whether to order the Portuguese bean soup or the Bermuda fish chowder (both $1.25), locals at the bar try to convince themselves and others that Bermuda is completely tranquil. One white businessman, somewhat loose with liquor, tells a black employee that "for the last ten years the white man has bent over backwards to make Bermuda, black and white, work...
...fortune in civilian life-though not without a little help from his friends. Waiting for him will be a $110,000 brick rambler in suburban Bethesda, Md., picked out by his wife Julie and her mother Pat Nixon but bought by C.G. ("Bebe") Rebozo, the President's businessman pal. The Eisenhowers will pay an undisclosed amount of rent, thus allowing Bebe, who has made millions in real estate and other ventures, to write off some of the expenses on his house. Its value has already increased, thanks to the cozy living quarters that the Secret Service has built...
...center of the controversy is the company president, Willie Farah. The son of a Lebanese dry-goods merchant, he had turned his father's business into a huge success. In 1971, the company ran up a profit of $6,000,000 on sales of $164 million. An imaginative businessman, the 53-year-old Farah nevertheless holds decidedly 19th century views about organized labor. He was so offended by the strike that he seemed ready to risk the business in opposing it. Accustomed to making the rounds of his well-lighted, air-conditioned plant on a bicycle, he could...
...character comedy. Jill Clayburgh is splendid as O'Neal's exwife, an inanely flamboyant provincial actress passing through Houston in a touring company of Plaza Suite, who resolves to give her former spouse another tumble when she gets word of his criminal exploits. As a big businessman in the process of being blackmailed by O'Neal, Charles Cioffi, who appeared as the,villain in Klute and the beleaguered cop in Shaft, continues to display a chameleon-like facility. Austin Pendelton as a chess master driven to fits of impotent violence by O'Neal's computerized...