Word: tycooning
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...population is English-speaking. Beyond that, the Nationalists feel that Anglo-Saxon liberalism reflected in such programs could subtly undermine apartheid-although a good packager ought to be able to find some pretty safe fare. Still, Hertzog accuses South Africa's English-dominated business community, and specifically Diamond Tycoon Harry F. Oppenheimer, of plotting to bring in television, which could mean "the destruction of white South Africa...
Woman of Straw. "Take off that uniform and look like a woman. Rustle, crackle and swish!" bellows Ralph Richardson. Nothing could be easier for Gina Lollobrigida. As the nurse assigned to a crotchety British tycoon who spends his days in a wheelchair, Gina soon rustles the old gent into a marriage proposal. She gets the idea from his sexy nephew, Sean Connery-an actor who occasionally takes leave of his James Bond roles, only to find that crime pays equally well elsewhere. Just as one might expect, Sean and Gina plan to share the inheritance once Richardson kicks off. Just...
...Tycoon stars 70-year-old Walter Brennan as a board chairman. Both the show and the corporation obviously float on his style alone. Last week, on a bet, he went out to prove that he could start over again with $10 and captain a new industry in no time. He did, with a clanking assist from the script. But what he owed the writers was nothing beside what they owed him. He even scored with an old one-liner about banks: "Never trust a place where they pull the shades down at three o'clock in the afternoon...
...Salisbury Daily News, owned by British Newspaper Tycoon Lord Thomson of Fleet, was banned last week for supporting African aspirations, despite a protest demonstration by 100 white and non-white students before the Parliament building. The Salisbury suburb of Highfield, where rival African parties have been feuding violently for months, was put in a state of emergency and sealed off by soldiers and police...
...monopoly is a monopoly to the Federal Trade Commission, be it in oil, steel-or bubble gum. So in 1959 the FTC began unwrapping the sticky case of Brooklyn's Topps Chewing Gum, Inc., tycoon of the baseball trading cards that now sag the pockets of every acquisitive American boy (and tomboy) between the ages of five and 15. Last week FTC Examiner Herman Tocker capped 4,000 pages of testimony with a 113-page opinion finding Topps so tops that its competitors are overcome with "a sense of futility...