Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Butterfield is survived by her father, Cyrus Eaton, 95 years old, a Cleveland businessman whose liberal political views led him into friendships with Fidel Castro and Nikita Kruschev, among others...
...fallen than he was on the phone to Washington, inquiring cheerfully about a low-interest loan. He happened to be (he explained to the voice going uh-huh on the other end) just the American that President Carter always talks about. He was-reverent pause-a small businessman. He also happened to be another of the President's favorite people: an energy-crisis fighter, an advocate and indeed a practitioner of "small is beautiful" technology. Hydroelectric plants of no more capacity than the one at Brown's Mill, he told the now fast-fading uh-huh in Washington...
Other credentials of a hard-nosed variety may then be displayed. MacArthur the successful businessman: founder of Graphics, a company devoted to making sophisticated copies of engineers' blueprints. MacArthur the licensed pilot and balloonist who ten years ago soared over the Arctic Circle in a basket of his own making, Q.E.D., Charlie MacArthur is no starry-eyed idealist. Charlie MacArthur is no nut. And having more or less settled that question, he can relax and go back to all the other things Charlie MacArthur is, including owner of the biggest clubhouse a boy and his gang could ever dream...
...vehicles and surveillance systems, as well as anti-kid-nap driving schools, are also expanding. For years, says David Dearborn, director of investigations at Pinkerton's, selling security in the U.S. has been "a little like selling flood insurance in the desert." That is changing: "While the American businessman still doesn't typically think of security for himself or his family, the American business...
...acts of love are performed by Ethel Laffey, a half-repressed voluptuary who spends a good deal of time in the percales, principally with Greeks, among them vulgarian Businessman Petros Kalkanis and Naval Officer Teddy Avaliotis, whom she marries. Among other Sunday adventures, she is assaulted by her husband's mad father Costa. Kazan, a director of note (A Streetcar Named Desire, Viva Zapata, America America) tends to write scenarios rather than novels. That might be acceptable except for the fact that his dramatis personae seem to be created for the viewer rather than the reader. Still, the novelist...