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...football's Director of Personnel Mark Duncan, "except fat. I'm the only fat person allowed around here." They are paid $250 to $350 for each of a dozen or more games a season. Though they work full time at jobs as various as pharmacist, policeman and bank vice president, their training for the game is extensive. Each summer they attend a week-long clinic climaxed by a six-hour written test. During the season, they are rated by the coaches as well as by Duncan and his staff, who take notes at the games and, after scrutinizing...
EVERY industry has its own sensitive indicators, be they birth rates, bank rates or crop forecasts. The FBI's recent report that the U.S. crime rate is running a brisk 19% ahead of 1967 came as no surprise to one industry whose prosperity is judged by such statistics. Crime and civil commotion are paying off handsomely for the hundreds of scattered, mostly small companies that sell goods and services to the rapidly growing law-enforcement market...
Friendly for Years. Lazard Freres owes its capital coup to the network of personal contacts carefully constructed by its French-born senior partner, Andre Meyer, 70. A close friend of World Bank President Robert McNamara and of outgoing Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler,* Meyer has been an adviser to Jacqueline Onassis, a trustee of Joseph Kennedy's estate and an economic consultant to President Johnson. He has long been friendly with both Smith and Deming and is particularly close to Lewis, who worked for Lazard Freres for eight years before going to Washington...
Evelyn argued that the British House of Rothschild should not necessarily become a home, stipulating that "no Rothschild can come into the bank who does not reach the required standards." The firm has both strengthened its ties with the French relatives and become more open to Christians and other outsiders. Last January, Evelyn took a partnership in the Paris bank and welcomed its head, Baron Guy de Rothschild (TIME cover, Dec. 20, 1963), to a reciprocal partnership at N. M. Rothschild. At the same time, the bank also added three non-Rothschild partners, putting the family in a minority...
Help for Hungary. The new boys have added vitality to the still overly inbred firm. Headquartered in London's City, the British Rothschilds retain their prestigious positions as gold broker to the Bank of England and substantial dealers in foreign exchange. Since 1966, they have entered industrial ventures with Britain's National Provincial Bank and with four Continental firms, including Baron Guy's Paris bank and Cousin Edmond's* Banque Privee in Geneva. In May, the firm assembled a syndicate that lent $15 million to Hungary, the first direct credit by Western lenders to an East...