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Isadore Sharp • Four Seasons
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He was college president until 1973; he ran for the Senate in 1976, aged seventy, becoming a Republican for the first time.
Henry Oliver • Second Act
But it’s worth noting that, thanks to more enlightened conservation policies in recent years, the city consumed less water in 2015 than it did in 1970, despite gaining more than one million additional residents.
Gary Krist • The Mirage Factory
Harry Chandler, owner and publisher of the Los Angeles Times, the mighty daily whose incessant drumbeat for the region influenced the city it covered in a way few newspapers have before or since. Chandler’s use of his paper to promote projects around the city—many in which his family and friends had a financial interest—had already turned Los Angel
... See moreGustavo Arellano • Taco USA
When the Fair came to a close on October 17, 1965, Robert Moses was revealed to the public in all his egotism, arrogance and ruthlessness. He was, in fact, portrayed, in the press’s emphasis on the $100,000 a year in salary and expenses and the escrow account, as something worse than he was—greedy for money. He was in public disrepute so great that
... See moreRobert A. Caro • The Power Broker
how we built a successful business on high wages.
Patty Civalleri • Becoming Trader Joe: How I Did Business My Way and Still Beat the Big Guys
his father had been a factory worker but was replaced by a small gadget.