Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...audience of the moment in Miami Beach when he locked the President in a now famous bear hug at the Republican National Convention: "Where else but in America could one grown man hug another grown man and get invited to his house?" Another of Nixon's friends, Businessman C.G. ("Bebe") Rebozo, observed, "It's funny but President Nixon and Sammy Davis Jr. are a lot alike -in a very different...
...path to a degree in medicine proved arduous. The second of four sons in a fatherless family, Robert Good had to earn his own way through the Depression by raking leaves, shoveling snow and running a newspaper route. Impressed by Good's ambition and industry, a Minneapolis businessman helped pay his way through medical school at the University of Minnesota...
...issue of Benjamin Butterworth's 1892 collection of drawings of early tools right up to the then-latest advances in American technology. The self-satisfied texture of this beautiful book speaks more eloquently than any written passage could for the peculiar sensibilities of the late nineteenth century businessman...
...Humbard dresses in expensive suits, commutes to his office in a Cadillac and jets to out-of-town appointments in the company plane. His Ohio-based conglomerate issues securities, reports annual revenues of $8,000,000 and has assets worth some $30 million. Yet Humbard, 53, is no ordinary businessman. He is a guitar-picking, down-home evangelist (TIME, May 17, 1971) with a following of 25 million weekly television viewers on 400 stations in the U.S. and foreign countries...
...autumn in a country mansion for one of the sisters to die. Agnes (Harriet Andersson) has cancer; her older sister Karin (Ingrid Thulin), the smartest and severest of the group, and her other sister, Maria (Liv Ullmann) an overripe coquette, have temporarily left their husbands--a diplomat and a businessman--to nurse her at their childhood home. The peasant girl, Anna (Kari Sylwa), is a servant who has been with the family for years and is devoted to Agnes...