Word: entrepreneurism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Conquistador-built and financed by Tijuana Entrepreneur Alfonso Bustamante Jr., the son of a local bottled-gas millionaire-is the second major luxury hotel to break the Tijuana mold. The initial gamble was made by Hotelier Mauro Chavez Cobos and a partner, Miguel Barbachano, who in 1970 opened the modern 92-room Palacio Azteca, which has rooms ranging up to a $94-a-day Imperial Suite. The hotel drew so many sound-citizen tourists that Chavez plans to add 250 more units and a 1,200-seat convention hall next year...
...CENTURY after the Union Army turned back General Robert E. Lee at Gettysburg, the little southeast Pennsylvania town has degenerated into a tourist trap. Fried-chicken stands, ice cream palaces and motels clutter the surroundings of what Lincoln called consecrated ground. Two years ago, Maryland Entrepreneur Thomas Ottenstein announced plans to erect the most garish attraction yet: a modernistic 307-ft. observation tower overlooking the battleground, complete with $750,000 worth of audio-visual equipment to provide what Ottenstein calls a "classroom...
...baptism of the Spirit (in the bathtub, at five). Howard Smith, a columnist for Manhattan's Village Voice, heard about Marjoe at a party last year, taped an interview with him, and recognized him as a find. Smith then talked Theater Mogul Donald S. Rugoff and California Entrepreneur Max Palevsky (until recently a big McGovern bankroller) into backing a documentary through Cinema...
Texas empire builders like Ross Perot, James Ling and Haroldson L. Hunt have a penchant for headlines -but D. (for Davis) Doyle Mize does not. A self-effacing entrepreneur known by only a few in the upper echelons of business, Mize, 48, is chairman of Houston's Southdown, Inc. In three years under Mize, Southdown has acquired a cluster of companies that drill for oil, develop land, refine sugar, make cement and sell beer, pushing its sales up from $35 million to $182 million, with net profits of $38 million last year. Now Mize is spreading into the thriving...
...years, demand for California wines will increase rapidly because the French will be unable to produce enough to satisfy America's growing thirst for good but moderately priced wine. The domestic market will soon be big enough to support another major national brand, he says, and a hustling entrepreneur could become a kingpin in American wines. That is exactly what Doyle Mize would like...