Word: businessmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years' imprisonment as he faced Army court-martial charges ranging in effect from laxity through perjury to espionage. The plot line was that Nickerson, field coordinator of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency at Redstone Arsenal, Ala., had been caught sending secret documents on the missile program to unauthorized businessmen, newsmen and Congressmen. The motivation: Nickerson was making a hero's fight on behalf of the Army missile program ("I was trying anonymously to influence certain key people") against the Air Force's assigned task of operating all the null 1,500-mile missiles, and was thereby (like...
Seasick Invasion. In the mountains near Mexico City, Castro set up a military training camp, held meetings with sympathetic Cuban business and professional men, who apparently dismissed his land-reforming, anti-business attitudes as youthful radicalism. It was agreed that once Batista was ousted, the businessmen would take over, rule Cuba for two years, hold free elections. Last December Castro landed a force of 82 seasick men in Oriente, set up headquarters in the Sierra Maestra. Castro knows that he cannot win merely by avoiding capture. But he does want to become a symbol of opposition that will attract...
...learned to do his thinking in a crouch. It is a posture that seems to hone the intellect. For catchers, once they have mastered the mask, chest pads and other "tools of ignorance," seem to make the grade as big-league managers almost as consistently as big-time businessmen make the team on Republican Cabinets. The bright tradition runs way back to the late Connie Mack and Roger Bresnahan. And from Mr. Mack on through Gabby Street, Mickey Cochrane and Al Lopez, few major-league catchers-turned-manager have matched the swift success of George Robert Tebbetts...
...addition, businessmen need to give a bigger push to the trade fairs by sending more of their company displays and brainpower. The Department of Commerce hopes to get enough business support so that private companies alone will represent the U.S. at fairs in Western Europe and the Americas. Then the Government can concentrate its tightly budgeted official displays in the most vital cold war arenas-the emergent countries of Asia, Africa and the Communist world. Says Commerce Department Trade Fair Boss Harrison T. McClung: "Private industry itself is the instrument that can most effectively tell the story of free enterprise...
...direct and decisive factor in our attempts to raise living standards in the French Union." So said French Premier Maurice Bourges-Maunoury as he appointed the first Minister of the Sahara, Socialist Max Lejeune. The appointment gave a new fillip to excited talk in bars and bourses, where businessmen bubbled with highflying schemes for converting France's colonial wasteland into a new Ruhr and inexhaustible source of raw materials...