Word: industrialist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Industrialist Howard Hughes "was just a big, awkward, overgrown country boy" in the late 1920s. Charlie Chaplin was stubborn, arbitrary, and once bet $100 that "talkies" would never last in Hollywood. Both were part of the galaxy that surrounded Actress Marion Davies during her 32-year reign as mistress to Newspaper Tycoon William Randolph Hearst. Davies' recollections, which were tape-recorded in 1951 but locked up until her death a decade later at 64, were only recently rediscovered and published as a memoir entitled The Times We Had. Hearst, who was 58 when he discovered Marion as a chorus...
...heavy New York Stock Exchange trading. In 1971, the company wrote off a $490 million pretax loss when it abandoned the unprofitable computer business that Sarnoff had caused it to enter. At the time there was speculation that he might be forced out by dissident directors, including Industrialist Martin Seretean-who has since left the board, though he remains RCA's largest stockholder. Sarnoff has also been openly criticized for the publicity buildup that RCA gave Moffo after they married...
Rivaling those grim incidents in drama-and gruesome detail-was the continuing saga of Dutch Industrialist Tiede Herrema, 54, who was abducted near Limerick earlier this month by two I.R.A. extremists (TIME, Oct. 20). Since then, Herrema and his kidnapers have been the target of the biggest man hunt in recent Irish history. The Dublin government has steadfastly refused to meet the desperadoes' demand that three convicted Irish terrorists be released from prison. Kidnaper Eddie Gallagher, 27, and his woman companion, reported to be Marian Coyle, 19, sent police a tape-recorded message by Herrema, who said...
...with good reason. Nobody has been more of a military-industrialist than Pete Rose. In fact, Rose is good enough reason to hate any ball club. My particular dislike of the man ran so deep that when he finally dropped 16 points under .300 in 1974 I considered it a banner year for baseball...
...other Ford campaign officials who attended his announcement ceremony have reputations for openness and honesty. The finance chairman is David Packard, former Deputy Secretary of Defense under Nixon and a multimillionaire California industrialist (Hewlett-Packard Co.). The treasurer is Robert C. Moot, Defense Department comptroller in the Nixon Administration. Moot said jokingly that his job will be to watch Callaway and Packard and "keep 'em both honest." The chairman of Ford's campaign advisory committee, Dean Burch, a former Nixon aide and political counsel to Republican Senator Barry Goldwater, noted that his eyes will be pointed...