Word: onassisism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The credibility gap widens in How I Spent My Summer Vacation, in which a social-climbing bum (Robert Wagner) cadges an Onassis-style cruise of the Greek islands from Multimillionaire Peter Lawford and Daughter Jill St. John. Once aboard, he detects dead fish in Lawford's bullion and bumbles...
Little known outside Norway, Berge sen, at 75, is one of Europe's most successful practitioners of the art of running a tanker fleet. He builds some of his own ships and orders others from competing yards, specializing in the immensely economical leviathans that are three times as capacious...
Flying Cash Registers. To get his own flying cash registers into the air, Onassis has steered Olympic along a characteristic route. He bought the bankrupt line from the government in 1957, added new equipment and turned his first profit in 1963. Then, by threatening to pull out of the airline...
Last year he tried to get a government guarantee for a $30 million loan to buy Olympic's three transatlantic 707s. That fell with the Papandreou government. Instead, Olympic got generous credits from Boeing, which figured that Onassis the shipowner was security enough for Onassis the airline owner. Still...
Nothing Spartan. Having gone to so much trouble to get his daily flights to and from New York and Athens, Onassis was not about to offer spartan service. Besides such now routine frills as in-flight movies and nine-channel stereo, the planes feature stewardesses in Chanel-designed uniforms, dinners...