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Golden Exile. For safety's sake, Betancourt cleaned out the worst of the golpistas. But he was discreet about it. Many a coup-minded officer was quietly "retired" with pay, or shipped off to "golden exile" in a diplomatic post. To other officers, Betancourt preached the sermon: "Your only party is Venezuela." The armed forces had a "patriotic duty" to help make democracy work...
...BUSINESS section gets its first cover story-on the liveliest member of the legendary Rothschild family. Boris Chaliapin flew to France to paint Guy de Rothschild in an appropriate setting-against a sumptuous red silk brocade wall in the 18th century Rothschild town house in Paris. The Rothschilds are discreet as bankers and reticent as a family, and it took a heap of interviewing (and 120,000 words of research) for the story that Marshall Loeb wrote. A new and thorough job of reporting was necessary, for, as Researcher Kathleen Cooil discovered, the books on the subject not only often...
...minimum investment risk. The partners regularly hop across continents to keep an eye on managements (Edmund visits Canada half a dozen times yearly), and a far spreading network of agents, who seldom even admit that they are employed by the Rothschilds, report constantly on fresh opportunities. Rarely does this discreet family exercise its powers to reorganize companies or juggle managements. Says Guy: "The French don't like violent reshufflings, outside of politics that is. It's not good form...
...widely reciprocated. As a Congressman and as Senator (which he was when he first appeared on TIME'S cover back in 1957), he liked the company of journalists, and found many of his friends among them. When he entered the White House, the relationship became more formal, discreet and professional, as it had to. But it continued. As a superb politician, John Kennedy understood the value of sympathetic press coverage, as a President he wanted to influence opinion, but most of all he seemed to find stimulation in the afterhours give-and-take of candid, informed, sharp shoptalk...
...taxis began to clog the narrow streets near the Vatican. Out of them stepped bishops, priests, brothers, nuns, seminarians. About half the pilgrims were Italian, many of them attired as for a picnic. But there were plenty of men dressed in their darkest business suits, and women in discreet blacks, lacy mantillas tossed over elaborate coiffures...