Word: maker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...whom I would entrust the nation's fate in a crisis, it would be George Shultz." Soft-spoken and unassuming, Shultz provokes that kind of reaction from most of those who have worked with him. "He does his homework, he hears people out, and he is a consensus maker," says Jack Carlson, who served under Shultz at the Office of Management and Budget...
...climax of the affair came last week after a group of eager, albeit edgy employees of Hitachi Ltd., Japan's fourth largest computer maker, arranged to wire $495,000 into the bank account of Glenmar Associates, a Santa Clara, Calif., electronics consulting firm. The money was actually intended as a clandestine payment for confidential information on some of the newest and most powerful computers made by International Business Machines, Hitachi's chief American rival (Hitachi had $1.4 billion in computer revenues last year, IBM $24 billion). But when Hitachi Senior Engineer Kenji Hayashi and two colleagues showed...
...doubles team started playing, according to Paris-Match, after a tennis tournament in Reno, and were spotted on a flight together from Los Angeles. Since her divorce from Philippe Junot, 42, in 1980, Caroline has reportedly dallied with Robertino Rossellini, son of Ingrid Bergman and the late Italian film maker Roberto Rossellini, and Robert Shriver III, offspring of Sargent and Eunice...
...Swinging Blue Jeans out of England's Top Ten. At the not-so-subtle prompting of producer Andrew Oldham, the press created an image for the group: semi-civilized sex demons, interested only in violating white-skinned virgins and avoiding baths and haircuts. In March 1964, Melody Maker ran a headline which must have made the behind-the-scenes mastermind smile very broadly: "Would You Let Your Daughter Go With a Rolling Stone?" Said Oldham at the time and repeatedly through the years: "For the Stones, bad news is good news...
This is a touch of Mel Brooks rather than Ernst Lubitsch, though elsewhere Korda exhibits a considerable talent for imitating the sophisticated innuendoes of that German-born film maker. Worldly Goods is, in fact, a trove of mimicked styles. Beyond its undeniable entertainment qualities, the book can be read as a clinic on what publishers call a page-turner. The author-editor goes one step further and ensures subliminal product identification, with his name centered at the top of every other page...