Word: lunches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years," says Culligan, "I have been able to erase my so-called mind. An executive simply talks at me, and for some reason I am able to retain it." Culligan polished off most of the auto companies in a single day: breakfast with Ford, a morning meeting with Chrysler, lunch with Chevrolet, cocktails and dinner with Cadillac...
...privately financed Space Needle, symbol of the fair, is close to paying off its $4,000.000 cost on the strength of elevator rides to the top ($1) and rent receipts from the revolving restaurant there, where crowds sometimes line up for four hours at lunch and reservations are made for breakfast. The $4,000,000, mile-long monorail to the fairgrounds will soon be paid for, and may be turned over to the city. As for the rest of the fair. private creditors have already recouped their original $4,500,000 investment, and since the fair still has another...
...Robert Woodruff, Coca-Cola's retired chairman, and Richard Rich of Rich's, the South's largest department store, who have long made no-nonsense civic enterprise an Atlanta tradition. "This is not a playboy's town and it's not a cocktail-at-lunch town," says Mayor Ivan Allen Jr., himself the former president of the South's largest office-supply firm. "This is a businessman's town...
...Eisenhower visited Paris' Elysée Palace to pay a call on an old comrade-in-arms. France's President Charles de Gaulle was waiting on the steps with a rare smile and a warm "cher ami." Then the two old warriors, both 71, went inside to lunch with 14 guests, including U.S. Ambassador James Gavin. "It was a quiet, small, very friendly, almost a family affair," reported Mrs. Gavin. Flying on across the channel for more of the same, Ike lunched at Buckingham Palace with Queen Elizabeth, paid a 15-minute visit to another wartime companion, recuperating...
...company has grown, its business approach has remained scientifically nonchalant. Chairman Edgerton continues to hold business conferences at lunch in the M.I.T. cafeteria, and avoids board meetings whenever he can. Weekends, he uses his own underwater sonic pinger for a scientist's hobby: probing Boston's Charles River for an 800-year-old Viking ship that he believes may lie on the bottom...