Word: bankers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...club today includes 286 doctors, lawyers, businessmen and journalists. U.S. Steel Board Chairman Roger Blough is a leading Penguin, so is Investment Banker Robert Lehman, Novelist Paul Horgan, Poet Robert Lowell and opera-loving ex-Boxer Gene Tunney. One opera buff recently tried in vain to buy his way into the club with a $25,000 "gift," but membership is by invitation, and openings usually occur only when a member dies. Though the club is frequently accused of snobbism, past President Robert Snyder, a corporation lawyer, declares that "economic status is unknown and unimportant. I imagine that William Rockefeller...
Businessmen are concerned about the future, but they are also remarkably confident. Among the most confident is Banker Peterson, who believes that with intelligent and courageous policy actions, men can make prosperity perpetual, create great societies at home and grand designs abroad. In the next five years, he observes, the number of U.S. families will grow by 5,000,000, or 10%, providing a tremendous expansive force and placing many new demands upon the nation's banks and businesses. "The next big thrust in the economy," he says, "will come from urban development - new concepts of housing, transportation, pollution...
...fifth highest scorer (375 goals) in N.H.L. history. Lured out of retirement by a $25,000-a-year contract, Geoffrion is a fierce competitor who needles his teammates unmerci fully. One day after a particularly tough workout, 22-year-old Rookie Bryan Campbell complained: "I should have been a banker." Exploded Geoffrion: "You little s.o.b. I'm 35. You're 22. What are you complaining about...
Married. Neva Goodwin Rockefeller, 22, daughter of Banker David, a Radcliffe graduate and aspiring playwright; and Harvard English Professor Walter J. Kaiser, 35; in Pocantico Hills...
...wake of the trend setters, a wave of tourists is now heading for the island resorts. Long Island Banker Patrick Clifford and his wife Mary are typical. They have made four trips to Hawaii in the past four years, and not once left Oahu. But, says Mary, "I'm so disappointed at the way Waikiki's been built up." This year, they will see all three of the major outer islands...