Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last presidential campaign when G.O.P. Contender Ronald Reagan denounced the proposed treaty as a "giveaway." Jimmy Carter also pledged never to surrender "complete or practical control" of the canal. But once Carter was in office, he put the treaty near the top of his agenda. He named Diplomat-Lawyer-Businessman Linowitz to the U.S. negotiating team. As a former U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of American States, Linowitz, 63, had pleased and impressed Latin Americans. Moreover, he firmly believed in a new treaty...
...secret, a strange mystique has settled around the Fund. The curious personality of Witteveen-part hard-nosed banker, part mystic (see box) -has only added to the organization's enigmatic reputation. The mystique is undeserved, since the delegates are as subject to emotion and nationalistic impulses as any businessman or politician...
...shares of Georgia bank stock, most of which Lance had bought in 1975 with $2.7 million borrowed from Manhattan's Manufacturers Hanover Trust. He later refinanced this debt with the loan from Chicago's First National. The potential buyer of Lance's stock is reclusive Atlanta Businessman David N. Smith, 39, who became a millionaire by selling tape-recorded language lessons overseas and minicomputers to biorhythm cultists. He wants the shares as the opening wedge in a financial transaction that would eventually make him the largest single shareholder in the Georgia bank. Smith has indicated that...
When he took charge of Lord Beaverbrook's London Daily Express empire in June, a wealthy English businessman named Victor Matthews said that his only injunctions to his staff were that they believe in Britain and seek to publish good news. These two demands he thought so commonsensical that he anticipated no trouble. Matthews may be competent at running the Cunard Line and London's Ritz Hotel-two of his company's many properties-but he just doesn't understand reporters and editors. They may believe in their country but recoil at the suggestion that they...
...When doctors hear about me, they wonder if they have chosen the right course," says Doctor-Turned-Businessman Armand Hammer. The celebrated 79-year-old Russophile and art collector is the chairman of Occidental Petroleum. He graduated from Columbia Medical School 56 years ago, but has never practiced medicine. While still a medical student, Hammer made his first million selling Pharmaceuticals. Later he worked in the Soviet Union, eventually building up a rich import-export business with the Soviets. At 59, he took over Occidental. Figuring that he would recycle some oil money into his original profession, Hammer last week...