Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lacks the strength to carry this broad, demanding part. He takes what is essentially a string of stereotyped roles--the various stages of Moorehouse's life--and produces hollow caricatures of the stereotypes. Toope masters the young man's engaging smile and the power-hungry eyes of a rising businessman, but beyond this sort of obvious device brings little depth to the part. If he is credible as the shallow, aging Moorehouse of the second act, it is not because he has captured the character, but because Toope plays the part with a shallowness...
Leader of the grass-roots campaign behind the amendment is Howard Jarvis, 75, a jowly, pipe-smoking ex-businessman who has made tax cutting a personal crusade for the past 15 years (he claims to have blocked 33 different local bond issues). "People just can't handle the burden any more," says he. "This is a government of, by and for the people, not the Government." A year ago, he and his Los Angeles-based United Organization of Taxpayers fell short by 1,200 names of the 500,000 signatures needed to put their property-tax amendment...
Surveying the costs of the welfare state, a businessman confesses: "I'm a little bit scared of the future." Still, Norway's variant of socialism stands a good chance of thriving-if only because of potential benefits of North Sea oil. Like the petro-socialists in Libya, Iraq and Algeria, Norway's Labor Party can count on bankrolling its welfare measures with its oil earnings. This is a route to democratic socialism which few other societies have the luxury of imitating...
MARRIED. Joseph Alioto, 62, multimillionaire businessman and former mayor of San Francisco; and Kathleen Sullivan, 33, moderate voice as president of Boston's school committee who is expected to run for mayor in 1979; he for the second time, she for the first; in Manhattan. Alioto divorced Angelina, his wife of 35 years, last August...
Bhaktivedanta Swami, a former Bengali businessman and a follower of Krishna since 1933, established the first ISKCON center in a small storefront in New York 12 years ago. He died last November, leaving over 6000 full time ministers and students of Krishna Consciousness. According to Garuda, the ISKCON founder did not die but merely appeared in a physical form, then disappeared. "After all the body does not determine life, life determines the body," Garuda says...