Word: entrepreneur
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some gaudy dreams. In his first book in six years, Robbe-Grillet's dreamy act turns round and round a series of tremulously ambiguous scenes set in Hong Kong. There is an American named Ralph Johnson who may really be a titled Englishman or even a Portuguese entrepreneur dealing in hashish, opium and girls. He attends, or thinks he attends, or the narrator thinks he attends, a party given by Lady Ava (or Eva or Eve or Jacqueline) Bergmann at a brothel-or possibly it is a figment of everyone's imagination...
...Monkees had not yet got around to singing anything, however, so Donnie Kirshner, the 32-year-old pop-rock entrepreneur (TIME, April 22), flew out to Hollywood from New York to spend two months with them. From these sessions emerged a single recording, Last Train to Clarksville, and an album called The Monkees; this week the album is first in sales in the nation, and Clarksville the second among singles...
...Valley Radio, a twelve-hour FM station built by the troopers from scrounged equipment and featuring mainly rock 'n' roll tapes contributed by the men themselves. In the heat of An Khe's sunny clime, ice is still a luxury. When the Cav arrived, a local entrepreneur hauled in ice from Pleiku every day, most of it melting before he got there but the remainder providing a cool profit. Then one day he failed to show up, and troopers found his creaky, decrepit truck leaking ice water on Highway 19. The truck and its owner were riddled...
...like to see fountains in Brattle Square," he says. "I'm waiting for an entrepreneur." He may very well be kidding in fact, there are only two things certain about Dietz's future. One is that when he reads this article he will say it is bush. The other is that he will be secretly pleased...
...Entrepreneur Lapin, 38, is on the way to becoming a millionaire, thanks mostly to franchising, one of the fastest-growing facets of U.S. business. Franchisers build national chains dealing in everything from popcorn to part-time help by licensing others to invest in and operate stores or offices; the franchiser makes money from the license and by selling supplies, techniques or recipes as well as nationally advertised signs, slogans and decor. Such operations now do a combined annual business of $25 billion, are growing 10% yearly...