Word: businessman
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King Umberto II of Italy, 72, was ousted by popular vote after World War II and a reign of 34 days; he lives in Portugal. His son Vittorio Emanuele, 39, is a successful businessman based in Switzerland; he is married to a commoner, Marina Doria, and has two children...
...with economists but are unable to name any. Wallace once remarked: "I look around at all the other candidates who have these advisers advocating things that have brought us where we are. I think maybe I'll have a good truck driver, a good steelworker, a good little businessman and let them advise me." This unintellectual approach has failed. Wallace's campaign has stalled so badly that his days as a national power seem finished...
...McGraw is a businessman, he is one after Bill Veeck's heart. It may not be just a boy's game, but last year while the Braves were taking batting practice, McGraw hid out of sight with a hose and periodically sprinkled then-Brave Ralph Garr, who kept staring at the sunny sky in amazement. You often get that kind of thing in baseball. Once before a game in St. Louis, Bob Uecker, then a journeyman catcher, now an ABC announcer, borrowed a tuba from a band that was playing on the field and used it to shag...
...undisputed center of international business. Lebanon's bloody civil war has changed all that. Once-bustling streets in the capital are choked with rubble. Hotels are gutted, eleven banks have been looted and even during the frequent "truces"-24 so far-the killing continues. Beirut, mourns one American businessman, is like "Dodge City with no Wyatt Earp in sight: 3 million people and 8.5 million submachine guns...
Landsmark, a prominent black businessman and executive director of the Contractors Association of Boston, was rushing across City Hall Plaza to a meeting on Monday, April 5, when he happened to pass by a large group of antibusing protesters who were leaving City Hall after a meeting with City Council President Louise Day Hicks. Without provocation, several South Boston and Charlestown High School students attacked Landsmark, knocked him to the ground, kicked and beat...