Word: bankers
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Married. Leonard K. Firestone, 58, son of the late rubber magnate, Harvey S. Firestone, and intended victim of an abortive multimillion-dollar kidnap plot two months ago; and Barbara Knickerbocker Heatley, 50, widow of a San Francisco banker; both for the second time; in Carmel, Calif...
...town, students would be competing with each other for money--and bankers naturally would lend money, to the better business risk, denying funds to the neediest. Brademas argued last week that it was unreasonable to expect bankers to lend $1000 to a family whose mortgage the bank was foreclosing. "And could a Negro ask a loan of a white banker in a Southern town?" Brademas asked. "He would be lucky if he was able to walk in the front door," he said...
Johnson has failed to realize that the proposed revisions would be more expensive than the present plan. Under the NDEA, the government is the banker; students get 90 per cent of their money from the government--the colleges put up the rest--and they repay the full amount after graduation. But under the guaranteed loan plan, the government would be subsidizing the interest on student loans and that money, paid to private banks or lending agencies, would never be returned to the government...
True, Lockheed is a great company, and much of the credit belongs to Chairman Gross and his dynamic executives [Feb. 11]. You say the chairman is a banker turned supersalesman and that the president and vice president were accountants who became brilliant administrators. But it takes more than salesmen and administrators to produce technological triumphs. Oh yes, you did say: "Engineers and scientists constitute a third of Lockheed's work force...
Weaver is a sybaritic, wholly citified man who loves Broadway plays, savors his stereophonic collection of Liszt and Chopin piano concertos, relishes Italian food (favorite is shrimp marinara), sips twelve-year-old bourbon when he works at home at night. He dresses in banker-conservative clothing, favors dark suits and dark Homburgs at the office, a plum-colored smoking jacket and black leather slippers at home. When he became HHFA director, Weaver promptly moved into an urban-renewed Washington apartment ("I wanted to put my money where my mouth was"), but within a year put his money into more luxurious...