Word: businessman
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Corporation members themselves don't hesitate to acknowledge that a good deal of tokenism goes into who is selected--the board includes a token professor, a token Boston-area businessman, a lawyer, and a token handyman for whatever project currently occupies the University's attention. And filling those roles are one of the country's leading physicists, the chairman of the mammoth Boston-based Gillette Corporation, the head of a large group of Boston mutual funds, a star Cleveland tax attorney, and the president of a huge shipping company who doubles as one of the $350 million Harvard Campaign...
DIED. John Betjeman, 77, poet laureate of Britain whose whimsical light verse and nostalgic odes to genteel Edwardian England won him uncommon popular success; in Trebetherick, Cornwall. The son of a prosperous businessman, Betjeman flunked out of Oxford and worked in a variety of jobs, from journalist to insurance salesman, before his Selected Poems (1948) won the prestigious Heinemann Award. Critics were divided on Betjeman's poetry; many found it trivial or derivative, perhaps because of its simple musical rhymes and accessible themes. An astute architectural critic, he waged passionate campaigns to preserve England's historical treasures...
...that has characterized El Salvador for decades, the pettiest disputes are settled permanently by gun or knife. In many cases the death squads have murdered people not for ideological reasons but for personal ones. In other cases, death squads have no role whatsoever. Rumors occasionally circulate about how this businessman or that official found with EM (for escuadron de la muerte) carved on his chest was actually killed by a jealous husband or business rival. Sometimes the only thing clear is that something unspeakably horrible has happened. In one incident, three soldiers were arrested for raping and killing a young...
There was no such controversy last week in Ecuador, which held its second presidential election since the military gave up power in 1979. Conservative Businessman Leon Febres Cordero defeated his center-left opponent, Rodrigo Borja Cevallos, by fewer than 100,000 of the 2.9 million ballots cast, but the vote occurred without incident and the armed forces did not intervene. When the result was announced, outgoing President Osvaldo Hurtado Larrea, who had quietly favored Borja, declared, "Democracy is winning ground in Latin America...
After a year, Parker left for Tokyo, where he produced shows and movies (he is now a businessman there), and Shirley came on visits. Their daughter, Stephanie Sachiko, was born in 1956. According to MacLaine, she and Parker had an understanding that each was free to have other relationships; indeed, for a time in the '70s, she tried "promiscuity-sex for sex's sake-because I believed it would be liberating for women, who had been subjected to a double standard. But there was just not enough communication." MacLaine "gradually came to think of Steve...