Word: industrialistic
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...Governor Nelson Rockefeller's bid for a third term in November. An unofficial favorite for the nomination last winter, O'Connor has since lost ground but still has strong organization support. His chances for the nomination, like those of the other three Democrats (Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., Industrialist Howard Samuels, County Official Eugene Nickerson), depend heavily on Senator Robert Kennedy, whose muscle in the party power structure is now such that he can pick the candidate at the September nominating convention. Though ostensibly neutral, Kennedy has contributed funds to Roosevelt's campaign, is believed to favor either...
...villa by Bavaria's Tegernsee, a West German industrialist recently celebrated the 18th birthday of his daughter with an intimate party for 100. The 20-ft.-long, damask-covered buffet table was laden with baked Prague ham, Alpine trout stuffed with Iranian caviar, roast venison from the Black Forest, Texas rattlesnake meat, capon breasts and small partridges on toast, Stuttgart quail, alligator soup, Strasbourg pâté de foie gras and aged black Chinese eggs. For hors d'oeuvres there were salted jasmine flowers, candied silkworms, toasted grasshoppers and grilled African honeybee. The wines were...
Until he invested more than $2,000,000 in ailing American Motors Corp. to become its No. 1 stockholder, Robert Beverley Evans of Grosse Pointe, Mich., cut a bigger figure as a socialite and sportsman than as an industrialist. Though he owns a dozen companies with combined sales of $20 million a year, Evans has left their affairs mostly to underlings, concentrated on such hobbies as golf, quail hunting, and designing and racing a 300 m.p.h. jet-powered hydroplane. Trim, Florida-tanned and handsome, Evans not only looks like a TV idol of 50-ten years younger than...
...millions by inventing and manufacturing a wooden wedge to secure the wheels of autos shipped by train. He founded Evans Products Co., broadened it into one of the country's big suppliers of plywood and railroad loading equipment. Six years ago, the family lost control to West Coast Industrialist Norton Simon, who specializes in moving into and reorganizing limping corporations...
...winner!" shouted Industrialist Howard Samuels, who calls himself "the poor man's millionaire." "I will be nominated on the first ballot," predicted Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., who recalled that his first New World forebear ran for public office in the 1690s. "I think I'm the only man," said New York City Council President Frank O'Connor, who was waiting for his rivals to evacuate Page One before formally announcing his own candidacy...