Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...list of instructions. He called on his Cabinet for "camaraderie, mutuality, friendship and a freedom of expression in debate" and said he would umpire any feuds. He requested proposals for trimming the bureaucracy, particularly the 13,500 lawyers on the federal payroll. Citing his own experience as a businessman having dealings with Government agencies, he complained that these lawyers have too little to do and draw up too many unnecessary regulations requiring "oceans of paper work" by businessmen and local officials...
Edward Milton Henley, born 1883, is a cynically amusing and immensely rich businessman. He is guiltlessly dedicated to his pleasures, which include ex otic women and an occasional boy. He has had four wives but contracted with a bright, healthy Irish immigrant girl to bear his child. The result is Stephen Henley, raised in an expensive, loveless manner. Instead of following Edward's sybaritic path, Stephen becomes a Unitarian minister and a classics scholar. He marries Lucy Roundtree Evans, a widow who has spent her sexual pas sion on her first husband...
...barrier, consumers are eying all kinds of exotic substitutes. Celestial Seasonings in Boulder, Colo., offers two: Roastaroma Mocha Spice, made of roasted barley, malt, chicory, dandelion root, carob and spices; and Morning Thunder, a concoction of black tea and a South American herb called yerba mate. An Orlando, Fla., businessman, George Sarantakos, is getting ready to market Bravo, an herbal mix that can be drunk alone or used to stretch out real coffee. It tastes like supermarket instant and, says Sarantakos, is made partly from "weeds we can pick up anywhere...
...Sinclair Radionics, the 26½ oz., minitube measures 6 in. by 4 in. by 1½ in., which calls for an ample pocket. Says Inventor Clive Sinclair, who also pioneered in developing the pocket calculator: "It's not a toy, but a perfect set for the businessman." The battery-powered sets are designed to operate in both the U.S. and Europe. Thus a traveling executive can catch the evening news on his way to Kennedy Airport and the early bulletins next morning in London or Paris. All he needs is the $300 purchase price. And perhaps a magnifying glass...
Murdoch, by his own admission, is "a businessman who wants to be an editor." He recently set goals of raising The New York Post's circulation (presently 490,000) to 700,000 by the end of this year and to one million by the end of 1978. The means he has used to raise circulation with other newspapers have been simple--sex and scandal, and lots of it. We haven't been treated to any VAMPIRE KILLERS STALK CONNECTICUT headlines yet, but if the November 30, 1976 cover of the Post is any indication we can still hope: the cover...