Word: businessman
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...Rewald, Dillingham & Wong. Rewald and Wong, however, were the only unmisleading names on the company's letterhead. The others were included to convince investors that the firm was connected to Hawaii's old-line, blue-chip Bishops, Baldwins and Dillinghams, which it was not. Says one local businessman: "It was as if he arrived in Manhattan and had a firm called Rockefeller, Harriman, Cabot, Forbes & Roosevelt...
Late last week, the announcement of a cease-fire was expected momentarily. The Lebanese Cabinet discussed a draft agreement Friday, and sent Lebanese Businessman Rafiq Hariri to Damascus with some minor changes. There was speculation that Gemayel would announce the agreement in a Friday-evening address marking the end of his first year in office...
Gordon Cooper, 56, the most flamboyant of the original seven, is now a conservative Encino, Calif., businessman who describes his second marriage in 1972 to Susan Taylor, now 38, as the highlight of his life. Besides spending five years as a vice president for research and development at Walter E. Disney Enterprises, Cooper has parlayed his technical expertise into a galaxy of ventures such as his own consulting firm and, currently, a corporation that will produce alcohol fuel...
DIED. William Fellner, 78, influential conservative economist; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. A Budapest businessman, Fellner emigrated to America in 1939, then taught at Berkeley and Yale before President Nixon appointed him to the three-member Council of Economic Advisers (1973-75). Fellner was perhaps best known for his analytical studies of inflation, which helped lead to the indexation of federal income taxes, approved by Congress in 1981 and scheduled to become effective...
...where U.S.-built airstrips are emerging, for example, there has been a sudden efflorescence of Honduran shopkeepers, motel owners, restaurateurs and others eager for U.S. dollars. Gasoline sales in the Pacific port of San Lorenzo (pop. 20,000), near one U.S. encampment, are up by 25%. Says a Honduran businessman: "If there is money to be made here, we should be the ones to gain...