Word: entrepreneurs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Southern Pacific railway company decided to convert much of its Watts right-of-way to industrial usage. The Commerce Department's Economic Development Administration joined the act by forming the nonprofit Economic Resources Corporation to acquire additional land and run the park. Headed by an aggressive Negro entrepreneur named Richard Allen, ERC's board includes eight other Los Angeles businessmen, one of them black...
When the Republican Party needed an extra $500,000 in a hurry to help pay for President Nixon's Inauguration festivities, it turned to Boston Entrepreneur Thomas Anthony Pappas. He raised the money in nine days of hectic telephoning to other friends of the G.O.P. Then Tom Pappas dropped in on some old acquaintances. He visited Ike and Mamie Eisenhower at Walter Reed Hospital, chatted with Richard Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge, and with Secretary of State William Rogers went over the names of some candidates for the post of U.S. Ambassador to Greece...
...crash helmets, matched short skirts with colored stockings and more recently dressed men and women in futuristic space suits. Fashion experts rank him among the top five trend-setting designers, along with Yves St. Laurent, Courreges, Ungaro and the House of Dior. As haute couture's top entrepreneur, however, Cardin has no equal...
...played the Indian Chief entrepreneur in Westward...
...TEXAS. Horn-rimmed glasses and a jaunty Stetson are the trademarks of Conservative Democrat Preston D. Smith, 56. The horn rims belong to the real estate entrepreneur and 18-year veteran of public office who had to work his way through high school at such jobs as picking cotton and pumping gas. The Stetsoned Smith is the campaigning frontiersman who flew to 249 of Texas' 254 counties to shake hands and exude confidence. Horn rims or hat, there was more than enough Smith to defeat Republican Paul W. Eggers...