Word: porter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...behind Lonrho's restless expansion is Roland ("Tiny") Rowland, 46, a 180-lb. six-footer who began his career as a porter in a London railway station, emigrated to Southern Rhodesia in 1948 and built a fortune from a Mercedes franchise and mineral speculation. In 1961 he traded his motor and mining assets for 30% of the stock of Lonrho, became a joint managing director with Chairman Alan Ball. Ever since, he has been flying around Africa in a twin-engine Beechcraft, persuading the established and emerging nations to do business with Lonrho, acquiring such diverse enterprises...
Internal Revenue. As Internal Revenue Commissioner, a job left vacant since Mortimer Caplin resigned in July, the President picked Sheldon S. Cohen, 37, who just a year ago left the Washington law firm of Arnold, Fortas & Porter to become chief counsel at the Internal Revenue Service. There Cohen streamlined the legal branch, pruned excess personnel, installed automatic data-processing and microfilm files for his 650 attorneys. He hammered the point home to his staff that the Government's aim in any tax litigation was not just to win the case but to set principles of law. Cohen hopes...
...yellowish, brassbound trunk not only moved-it talked. From its depths came kicks, wriggles, and a sepulchral voice pleading "Aiutatemi! Salvatemi!" (Help me! Save me!). Porter Mario Colelli, who was loading freight into the rear baggage compartment of United Arab Airlines flight 784 to Cairo, recalls, "It was good Italian, real Italian Italian. Suddenly, I thought, 'My God, this is an Italian, and these Arabs are kidnaping him-some political fellow or something. Who knows what they'll do to him down there in Cairo...
...With the porter's alarm at Rome's Leonardo Da Vinci airport last week began an espionage yarn that grew steadily more hilarious to onlookers and more embarrassing to Egypt...
...understood that the first was Ella. As a true jazz musician, she has never sung a song twice the same way. She still makes her old classics like How High the Moon sound fresh and new, and in recent years she has reached out to include anthologies of Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Rodgers and Hart, Irving Berlin, and George Gershwin...