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"If I put my car in a garage, it will cost me $56 a month," one descendant of Romulus mused. "And if I leave it on the street and get a $1.60 ticket five days a week, it will only set me back $32. But suppose the cops give me...
Hard Sell. Even without girls, the student body is changing. This year, for the first time, public school graduates in the freshman class clearly outnumber those from prep schools, 536 to 501. A recent report showed that of the top executives of the 750 largest corporations in the U.S., Yale...
Debate in Steel. In the 18th century Hungarians introduced the modern saber, a descendant of the Mohammedans' curved scimitar, and by mid-19th century, Italians were dueling with the épée. Fencing, the swift and subtle debate in steel, had come of age.
Charlotte became Grand Duchess in 1919 after her elder sister, Marie-Adélaïde, was forced to abdicate for her pro-German sentiments during World War I. Charlotte quickly indicated her own, very different feelings by reviewing U.S. troops with General Pershing at her side; ever since, she...
Protected from Politics. The descendant of a proud patrician but impoverished Virginia family, Edith Boiling Gait came to Washington with her first husband, who was a jeweler. When Gait died, she took over the jewelry shop. Though not active in Washington society, Edith met the President in 1915 through a...