Word: elderly
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Privately, many Moroccans wonder if the monarchy can survive Mohammed. His elder son, 29-year-old Moulay Hassan, is Crown Prince, although Moroccan kings traditionally have been chosen by a college of ulema. or religious judges. He is French-educated, intelligent, can exude kilowatts of charm. As commander in chief of the royal army fighting the rebels in the Rif (TIME, Dec. 22) and around Fez, he takes his job seriously, works hard. But Morocco's young nationalists do not hide their dislike for the prince and his way of life. Only a few weeks ago a Berlin businessman...
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr., Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, Emeritus, returned to lecture yesterday in History 169, his first College lecture since 1954. "It was like an old horse returning to pasture," the elder Schlesinger commented last night...
...effort to eliminate the growing mass of 9G students, Dean Elder proposed a plan limiting the number of years of graduate study to four. The plan, alternately referred to as the "No degree--flee!" plan or the "write or perish" proposal, was voted down by the Faculty. There was, in the words of Eliott Perkins, only "a peeping chorus of ayes" in favor of the proposal...
...from One. Though other banks have outstripped J. P. Morgan & Co. in total deposits, it has never lost the patrician air of leadership it gained virtually at its founding in 1862. It still does what the elder J. Pierpont Morgan called "only a first-class business and that in a first-class way," serving such blue-chip firms as Du Pont, General Motors, International Harvester, American Telephone & Telegraph and U.S. Steel, many of which it had a hand in building. The bank began by marketing U.S. railroad securities abroad, took the lead in consolidating and merging railroads toward the turn...
...Country Cousin. Morgan & Co. has left the elder Morgan's imperiousness far behind. It is a publicly held corporation, owned by 2,070 stockholders who saw their stock rise from $345 to $395 in the over-the-counter market when the merger news was announced (one share of Morgan for 4.4 of Morgan Guaranty). Under able Chairman Alexander, the bank has made no bones about its competitiveness, trains young men nicknamed "bird dogs" to go out and hunt for business. For the Guaranty Trust, one of the impelling reasons for the merger was to get Morgan's bright...