Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shakes in the Street. In the end, since many of his companies are not directly affected, Schlieker may well salvage enough to rebuild his empire. But his tumble had so shaken the German public, to whom Willy Schlieker was the prototype of the self-made tycoon, that the West German Economics Ministry felt obliged to rush out a statement that Schlieker's problems were of his own making and "cannot be traced to a depression-type development in the German economy...
...built in Italy is now under construction. When it goes into production next spring, the Prinzen Brau brewery will produce 1,350,000 gallons of heady, German-style beer a year. The man behind Prinzen Bräu: West Germany's Rudolph-August Oetker, 46, a publicity-shunning tycoon who has built an inherited baking powder business into a 100-company complex with interests ranging from shipping to insurance...
...Cover) He is probably the most unorthodox tycoon in the land. He has no office, no secretary, no personal files. He has never dictated a business letter or made a speech. "I pay other people to do things like that," he says. He seldom makes a telephone call or negotiates a business deal personally ("I feel my people can haggle better than I can-so why waste my time?"). He shuns credit cards; he regards them as a temptation to spend company money. He never goes to cocktail parties or conventions; they cost time. Though he is worth $40 million...
Fire in the Ashes. Like many another Texas tycoon. Germany is politically an ultraconservative and an implacable enemy of unions. His battles against the United Steelworkers Union undid most of the good will from baseball and baton twirling. In 1957 Lone Star was hit by a 23-day strike. While Germany and 770 workers slept, ate and poured steel inside, 2,600 other employees-summarily fired by Germany-picketed outside. Pipelines were cut, bombs thrown, and nonstrikers attacked until the Texas Rangers had to be called in to end the violence. Since then, labor relations have been at least quiet...
...Parisian Singer Juliette Greco, 35, let upwards of 10 million European readers in on the details of her four-year whirl with Cinemogul Darryl F. Zanuck, 59, who took her from cellar cafes to stardom in The Roots of Heaven. "What can a young woman see in an elderly tycoon with a toothbrush mustache, who smokes like a chimney, speaks through his nose and is perpetually angry?" asked Juliette in serialized memoirs in Paris Match and London's weekly People. The answer, said she, was that "I have always loved lost causes. He was like an orphan...