Word: entrepreneur
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...darlings are parentless and begging to be taken home. They do not come from stork, or test tube, but from a former medical clinic in Cleveland, Ga., called Babyland General. They are dolls. Each fabric-and-polyester infant is a "soft sculpture," handmade by one of 125 employees of Entrepreneur Xavier Roberts, 24, a former artist. In just two years, Babyland has "delivered" 50,000 babies at prices of $125 to $200 each, which Roberts insists on calling adoption fees. "You don't buy them, you adopt them," said one middle-aged Miami woman, pressing a fat baby...
SEPARATED. Caroline Grimaldi Junot, 23, princess of Monaco; and Philippe Junot, 40, self-described real estate entrepreneur; after two years of marriage, no children; in Monaco, where a palace spokesman made the announcement after Junot had been seen vacationing in Turkey with a comely companion he described as his secretary. Said Junot: "Everything is finished between Caroline and me. We are both free to do as we want...
...offshoot of South Africa's De Beers Corp. Stevens insists that "the South Africans once had a monopoly on the diamond trade in this country, but we are trying little by little to break it." That plan has focused recently on efforts by a Stevens business associate, American Entrepreneur Maurice Templesman, to help Sierra Leone get financing from the World Bank for an ambitious deep diamond-mining venture. A sometime escort of Jackie Onassis, Templesman has hired New York Lawyer Theodore Sorensen, once the chief speechwriter for John F. Kennedy, to represent his interests. In Freetown, it is widely...
Thus ended the 40-day flight of Jacobson, 49, celebrated horse trainer and real estate entrepreneur who was convicted on April 12 of murdering John Tupper, a restaurateur and his rival for the favors of Fashion Model Melanie Cain. Jacobson escaped on May 31 by switching places with a visitor posing as his attorney and simply walking out of the Brooklyn House of Detention. Accompanied by his girlfriend, Model Audrey Barrett, 22, Jacobson drove across the country, stopping briefly in Des Moines to pick up identification papers using names from tombstones in a cemetery. The pair bought...
...recession deepens, disgruntled employees, psychopaths or terrorists will increasingly threaten industry leaders. Corporate security has now become a $7 billion to $10 billion business, and even the aging comic-strip crime fighter Dick Tracy last week was faced with the kidnaping of his old pal Millionaire Entrepreneur Diet Smith...