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He has shown that in this wide-open economy a hard-nosed scrapper can beat the odds. His first big boss warned him not to expect to rise too high in banking because grandsons of Lebanese immigrants can't make it big in that Wasp world. Abboud was not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Executive View by Marshall Loeb: Some Hope for the Ex-Champ | 8/21/1978 | See Source »

Other credentials of a hard-nosed variety may then be displayed. MacArthur the successful businessman: founder of Graphics, a company devoted to making sophisticated copies of engineers' blueprints. MacArthur the licensed pilot and balloonist who ten years ago soared over the Arctic Circle in a basket of his own...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Maine: A Crank for All Seasons | 7/17/1978 | See Source »

Atomic Tommy wiped out going around the bend; he took the curve too fast. A little fawn-colored dog named Refuge nosed into the lead and clinched it.

Author: By Mary G. Gotschall, | Title: Going to the Dogs | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

Readers who try to decipher her fullpage, many-framed scratchings may think she has a point there. Bretécher's comic strips, not exactly thigh-slappers, suggest the wry, nervous humor of Jules Feiffer and Garry Trudeau. Her typically flabby, potato-nosed men, women and children often discourse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Slicing the Baloney with Style | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

Radcliffed nosed out B.U. in the regular season and in the Sprints last year by less than a second each time, but sickness and graduation fever caught up with the two evenly-matched crews at the Nationals in June when the Terriers came back to take second place to Radcliffe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cliffe Crews Open Season Against B.U. | 4/8/1978 | See Source »

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