Word: businesswoman
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...Until now, France was our model in business. Now it is the United States." Miss Nguyen Thi Dong Thanh, 31, a teacher turned manager of the Merry Realm Juice Milk Co., is anxious to learn enough to "catch up with my other friends who are in business." A younger businesswoman, Miss Truong Thi Bich Tuy, 25, runs Saigon's Socipha Drug Company, which is owned by her father. Why is she at Harvard? "Too many times, I must ask help from my brothers-in-law," she sighs. "After learning here, I will be able to run the company myself...
...Donnell, a Long Beach, Calif., businesswoman and pioneer aviatrix, charged that Mrs. Schlafly's right-wing views would create dissension in the ranks of G.O.P. distaff stalwarts in '68. Gladys also challenged some of her rival's original notions: one of Phyllis's more notable contentions is that the Johnson Administration has laid plans to legalize polygamy for the elderly. Anyway, observed Mrs. O'Donnell's ladies with quiet satisfaction, any responsible mother with all those children ought to be home with her family. After two days of such deep philosophical meowing, the delegates...
...like to run around." Mrs. Bessie Punyanitya Samargachan, 37, has expanded her Boon Vanit Travel Agency from a tiny concern with one part-time guide into one of Thailand's biggest agencies, with 80 employees and a fleet of 20 buses and cars. Perhaps the most eminent Thai businesswoman of all is Mrs. Lursakdi Sombatsiri, owner and operator of Bangkok's biggest bus company, the White Bus Line. Trim, thirtyish Mrs. Lursakdi, a former Thai golf champion, inherited the company from her father, built it into one of the country's most progressive businesses. It provides workers...
...businesswomen make ever deeper inroads into Thailand's commerce, they exercise great tact and diplomacy in dealing with their men. They take the position, in fact, that behind every successful businesswoman is a loving helpmate...
Hope Diamond is a pro, but one gets the feeling that she's as much of an efficient businesswoman as a performer, that she draws a paycheck, not like the older burlies performers the very breath of life, from the spotlight. She's more of a respectable madame figure than a temptress. And when the show has closed and the props are packed, she is no longer Hope Diamond, gem of the exotics, but Leona Bonaccolte, reader of Gibran, mother, and resident of Edgewater...