Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cutting the Caper. Rhadamés and his fellow "ins" live like royalty, tooling around Switzerland, France and Spain in a fleet of Cadillacs, Jaguars and Mercedeses, accompanied by scores of servants, bodyguards and hangers-on. Rhadamés, who looks after the investments in France, cuts the caper in splendor on a $5,000,000 estate near Evreux, with his wife and 15 servants; his three stallions and 20 champion brood mares are already the talk of French racing. In Madrid, Ramfis, his mother and a few other family members occupy three $50,000 apartments in a fashionable section...
...enthusiastically for both business and pleasure. Last year the country's planes flew 3,000,000 passengers, and the load is expected to increase another 20% this year. Competing with government-owned Trans-Australia Airlines, Ansett flew more than half the national total in his 100-plane fleet, which ranges from small Cessnas to propjet Viscounts and Electras, and will soon include Boeing 727 jets...
Fire the Chairman. Ansett had in creased his fleet to seven planes by the end of World War II, but by then others saw opportunity in the air. The government set up Trans-Australia, and a private firm formed Australian National Airways. When the banker who served as Ansett's board chairman suggested that he sell out to competing Australian National, Ansett fired him, eventually bought out A.N.A. himself for $6,700,000. When the government ordered him to raise fares along with Trans-Australia, Ansett stubbornly refused and forced a backdown. "I've got a kind...
Hearty Bob Townsend, 43, who came from American Express 28 months ago, wears his button and a bright red Avis blazer just like any employee. He has breathed new life and spirit into Avis, increased its vehicle fleet from 16,600 to 36,000. He has even let himself be grist for Doyle Dane's productive mill. A recent ad revealed that he has no secretary and answers his own phone, suggested that anyone with a complaint call his number direct (area code 516, CH 8-9150). Townsend has since heard from about 400 people, last week made...
...University of Oklahoma graduate who studied geology and petroleum engineering, Mecom keeps twelve geologists and three geophysicists at work in his search, makes all the final decisions himself. He maintains a fleet of 27 airplanes and a private navy that includes a converted LST, three oceangoing tugs and a 5,000-ton freighter named Little John. Mecom lives with his wife and two daughters (he also has a married son) in a Frenchlike chateau in Houston, owns three cattle ranches and a private zoo of lions, zebras, gazelles and camels. A man who hardly hesitates before he plows $120 million...