Word: baron
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rothschild announcement marked the first time that Baron Guy de Rothschild, 57, fourth generation head of the French branch of the world's most famous financial family, had ever held a press conference. Assembling 100 newsmen in the sedate banking offices lined with portraits of earlier Rothschilds, Guy explained why the Rothschilds were undertaking a policy of "opening up, democratization and de-mythification." Said he: "Banks can only develop in bringing together the liquid savings of an ever more numerous, ever more diffuse clientele. Many rivulets must be channeled to irrigate many users." For that reason, the Rothschild Bank...
...championship team. Last week he took out his frustration on the Celtics, and particularly on his longtime nemesis, Boston's 6-ft. 10-in. center and coach, Bill Russell. In a fierce personal contest that one sportswriter described as "the flashiest high-altitude duel since Eddie Rickenbacker v. Baron von Richthofen," Chamberlain outscored Russell 108-57, out-rebounded him 160-117, made 50 assists to Russell...
Still, if political leaders have been laggardly, businessmen have not. And perhaps the Common Market's most notable achievement is a new state of mind in Europe's business community. "The most important success of the Common Market," says Baron Jean-Charles Snoy et d'Oppuers, Belgian banker and a signer of the Rome treaty, "has been in changing the attitudes of Europe's businessmen. An immense amount of capital investment has been made on the assumption of the larger market. This is something indestructible, and this huge stake in the success of the Common Market...
...tree-studded ties and double-breasted pinstripe jackets. At Dartmouth, the particular "drinking uni" (for uniform) at the moment is the "blow-lunch look" (so called, one student explains, because "when you look at one of those ties you want to blow your lunch") topped off with a Red Baron Flying Ace helmet, complete with ear flaps and shrapnel holes. At Harvard, the grapevine passes the word around within hours whenever Secondhand Deal er Max Keezer or "Morgie's" (Goodwill Industry's Morgan Memorial) gets in any old taxi-driver hats or brownand-white shoes, and some Harvards...
...more famous loser stories concerns a Harvard student from Lichtenstein, who gambled away a semester's allowance in a night. Then he put his Lotus Elan and his title (he was a Baron) on the table--and lost them both. The winner returned the title and the Lotus in exchange for the use of the car the following weekend...