Word: entrepreneurs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ablon, who has built his Ogden Corp. into a far-reaching (shipbuilding, metals, processed foods) conglomerate, the word connotes a company with "no unity, no purpose and no design."* To most image-conscious companies, the real conglomerates are thus the operations of men like Victor Muscat, a Manhattan-based entrepreneur whose corporate acquisitions generally follow no visible pattern, come after bitter takeover fights, and result in little in the way of new management initiatives...
...sound track, there were the taped comments of the volunteers. "I'm a bit cynical about mine," said a girl who described herself as a model, "because it's worth money." The director was Miss Yoko Ono, 34, a Tokyo-born artist-composer and currently an entrepreneur of happenings in London. The premiere was a benefit for Britain's Institute of Contemporary Arts, a prestigious public patron headed by eminent Art Philosopher Sir Herbert Read. But the point of it all was lost on most Londoners. Sales of the opening-night tickets ($4.20 top) were so slow...
Perhaps the Vietnamese visitors will leave behind a few business lessons of their own. One dainty entrepreneur spotted a costume ring in a Cambridge jeweler's window. It caught her fancy and she went inside to buy it, Asian-style. As she explains it: "I ask how much. He says seven dollar. I offer three. He say no, seven. I offer him four-say no more. He sell for four...
Last summer "some clever entrepreneur," as your newspaper persists in calling me, had some buttons made which read "I Go Here in the Winter." What began as a small, private affair was quickly magnified when the Crime chose to publicize it, and I found myself the living symbol of Harvard snobbery. Mother was so proud; Mr. Crooks, unfortunately...
...rest of the year. But it is community in a negative and at times rather ugly sense, bringing to the surface a kind of Harvard snobbery that either hurts or greatly amuses those others who come to Cambridge looking for Harvard. At the beginning of last summer, some clever entrepreneur sold "I Go Here in the Winter" buttons to those who could furnish appropriate proof, but there are subtler ways--an abbreviation dropped here, a bit of history recalled there, a nickname spoken ever so casually in the Yard--to make the point, and everyone becomes adept at the game...