Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Trudeau's success may depend a good deal upon the appealing impact of his comely wife Margaret. The daughter of a Vancouver businessman and former Liberal Cabinet Minister, Margaret, 25, shunned public exposure after her marriage to Trudeau in 1971. She preferred the quiet domestic life-skiing and pack trips with Pierre, caring for their sons Justin, 2½, and Sacha, six months-but decided after Trudeau's near-defeat in 1972 that this time she should take a more active campaign role. Lately Margaret, with her elfin smile and insouciant ways, has been wowing crowds from Quebec...
Indeed, an ever-growing number of Texas businessmen will go to almost any length to avoid the delays and inconvenience of Dallas-Fort Worth. One Dallas businessman even flies from Love to Houston to take a connecting flight from there to Chicago or New York, and points out that this costs him $20 and 40 minutes, only slightly more than the cab ride to the big airport. Gordon Bing, a leading Houston executive, says in un-Texan fashion: "Bigger is just not better. I've been through there once and that was enough-all that delay and confusion between...
...forced down the throats of schoolchildren for generations, until at last they have become weary commonplaces of the English tongue. From star-cross'd lovers to the rose that by any name would smell as sweet -all these have become bromides. One can sometimes sympathize with the tired businessman who refuses to see any more Shakespearean productions because they are too full of quotations...
Particularly in the South, many middle-class people continue to live in the ghetto. In Winston-Salem, N.C., Alderman Charles C. Ross, a successful businessman, elects to remain in the neat white clapboard home that he bought in 1947. "Staying here," he explains, "is my way of saying to other blacks: 'You can make it if you try hard enough...
...Lawyer, businessman and politician, Davis, 38, personifies the growing self-confidence and influence of Birmingham's black upper middle class. He is a member of both the state and county Democratic executive committees. His law practice is expanding so quickly that last year he took on a junior partner and now he plans to add another. Important segments of the city's black leadership are urging him to run for mayor...