Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Soup Kitchens. Even if they had wanted to carry out a campaign of revenge and terror, Communist forces had little time for retribution. They had more than enough work trying to restore the captured cities and towns to normal operation. In Danang, according to a South Vietnamese businessman who was there after the fall and then made his way to Saigon, the normal population of 500,000 was swollen to almost twice that number by refugees. Military government experts were preoccupied with getting the refugees back to their homes; bus service has already been established from Danang and Qui Nhon...
...tied hand and foot in a stolen Fiat less than 500 yds. from his home in the luxurious Parioli district. He had spent the past month locked in a 6-ft. square cell, he told police, and could not identify his captors. After two days of seclusion, the gaunt businessman emerged to correct reports that his ransom had been a record $16 million. "The astronomical sums reported in the press only provide free advertising and promotion for this new kind of economic enterprise," he said. Bachelor Bulgari, an occasional escort of Gina Lollobrigida and Candice Bergen, then added: "Even...
...smaller and more powerful Harvard Corporation has one of its rare vacancies this year, and by all indications it, too, is looking for a businessman for the post...
...merging United Fruit with his own AMK Corp. in 1970 to form United Brands, however, Black had been trying to bury the el pulpo image. By paying high wages, providing workers with low-cost housing, building schools and operating well-equipped hospitals, he had earned a reputation as a businessman with a social conscience...
...fears of reprisals from embittered South Vietnamese swept through the chaotic capital and Communist forces regrouped an hour's drive to the northeast for an assault that could overrun Saigon, most of Viet Nam's American executives were either gone or packing to leave. Said one businessman: "It's almost better to go home now and come back to make a better deal with a Communist regime in five years...