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...Irish admire more than a first-class horseman, it's a chap with a tongue touched with blarney. And to have both in the same man, now there's a fine ambassador for the Americans to be sending. Of course, Raymond Guest, 58, noted Virginia horse breeder and financier, did warn them when he arrived last year that he "intended to be the kind of American you would like to see in your country." So it was no surprise when he showed up at the Dublin Horse Show astride his eight-year-old gelding, properly named Shaun...
...about two dozen other varieties of tropical fish, are named for a burly, sometimes surly, businessman-scientist named Herbert R. Axelrod. At 39, Dr. Axelrod has been the supreme sage on tropical fish for so long that many people imagine he is in his 70s. As the largest breeder and seller of tropical fish in the world, he has amassed a personal fortune that makes him several times a millionaire...
...Winthrop Rockefeller, 53, the Arkansas cattle breeder, decided to try again for the same kind of job his brother Nelson has back in New York...
...thinks of the poor hog breeder torn between love of his work and a yen for European travel? Who cares about the speleologist yearning to visit foreign lands but loath to mix with ordinary tourists who never plumbed a cave? Travel agents, that's who. What's more, they're doing something about it. This year Academy Travel Ltd. will assemble an exclusive and hardy band of spelunkers in London, collect $195 a head, and lead them off on a somewhat sunless 15-day crawl through the caves of Rumania. In New York, Lindblad Travel...
This strong performance is being pushed by a top command descended from the company's 19th century owners: Chairman Walter R. Beardsley, 59, who controls 20% of the firm, and President and Chief Executive Walter Ames Compton, 54, a Harvard-trained physician. A breeder of Chukar partridges, a leader in the fight to save the American chestnut tree, and a collector of Japanese swords, Oriental rugs and historical bells and whistles, Dr. Compton has few habits that require the frequent use of his chief product. That does not seem to bother him. He has strongly moved Miles into clinical...