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...begins his career on the New England coast with the purchase of an aging trained bear called State O' Maine and a 1937 Indian motorcycle with sidecar. The seller is a vagabond named Freud, who after World War II lures Win into the Viennese hotel deal. The hapless entrepreneur is blinded by a radical's bomb and winds up at the third Hotel New Hampshire, in Maine, bought by his surviving children. Only the children do not have the heart to tell him that the resort has been turned into a rape crisis center; his life of illusion...
...issue is Casey's poor judgment in appointing a political crony, Max Hugel, to head the CIA'S clandestine operations. A New Hampshire entrepreneur with no relevant background in intelligence work, Hugel quit under fire two weeks ago when two former Business associates accused him of illegal stock manipulations before he joined the agency. The committee is also probing Casey's own business past, including findings by two courts that he and other directors of Multiponics, a New Orleans agribusiness firm, had deceived investors and operated the company to protect their own financial interests instead of those...
Last year Network grossed $1.5 million, and Hollender now plans to expand by including other cities (possibilities: Hartford, Conn., and London). He also nourishes hopes of breaking into the new cable TV market. Says the youthful entrepreneur: "Running Network is as close to becoming a college president as I ever want...
...homeowner's headache is becoming the entrepreneur's opportunity. While the housing market remains flattened by mortgage rates that are approaching 17% in many parts of the country, business is booming for a hybrid real estate product known as the miniware-house, usually a one-story building of garage-like cubicles rented as neighborhood storage space to individuals, families and small businesses. Renters supply their own locks and can generally visit their cubicles as often as they like...
...central story locks two great financial houses, Struan & Co. (the "Noble House") and Rothwell-Gornt, in a mortal struggle. Throughout, playing off the rivals, are an American entrepreneur and his 26-year-old female partner, an executive sweet who seems a bit anachronistic for 1963. For readers who tire of bank runs and stock manipulations, the author weaves in an elaborate spy story that involves the CIA, the KGB, Britain's MI-6 and the spy networks of both Chinas. The sex is rather decorous, but for sports buffs, there are rousing horse races. And the roiling cast...