Word: groves
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...company gets. (One perk: a view. Of the parking lot.) He keeps a support staff of three busy. He has developed his own special "mail codes"--f/u for "follow up"--that let him zip through his In box with special efficiency. A faithful assistant once put together a Grove-to-English dictionary for new assistants bewildered by the CEO's avalanche of time-saving abbreviations...
...Grove is not all work: he skis, bikes with his wife Eva, listens to opera. He occasionally breaks out into a wild, disjointed boogie (his kids call it groving instead of grooving and recall the time Eva snapped her ankle on their shag carpet as the two danced to the sound track of Hair). The dance step is typical: Grove is a passionate, if disjointed man. He is a famously tough manager who, late at night, can still fill Intel's offices with a rolling laugh. He is a man who lost most of his hearing when he was young...
...born on Sept. 2, 1936, in Budapest, the son of George, the dairyman, and Maria, a bookkeeping clerk. His father, a gregarious, easygoing man with a strong, logical mind, left school early and taught himself business and accounting--everything he needed to know to run a small dairy service. Grove's mother, a spare, lovely woman, raised him in their two-room 19th century apartment. From an early age Grove was marked as the son of a capitalist and as a Jew. His parents hoped that with hard work he could overcome the prejudices...
What came next is the thing his daughters call "what Dad doesn't talk about." The rest of the world calls it World War II. Grove won't discuss his life in Budapest during the war. And though he travels the world, he hasn't returned to the city and swears he has "no interest in going back." He recently ran into billionaire George Soros, who was also a Jew living in Budapest in 1941. Soros has called the years the most important of his life. Grove calls Soros "totally different from me in that respect." The time, he insists...
...father disappeared in 1941--just vanished after being drafted into a work brigade. What had happened? No one knew, but they did know that Jewish men around Eastern Europe were disappearing like a morning fog. Then in March 1944, the Germans occupied Budapest and, Grove says, "they began rounding us up. Not us, actually, because my mother and I were in hiding, but Jews. Jews they were rounding up." He blinks and sips at his Scotch...