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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While South African Surgeon Christiaan Barnard, 44, pushed up his publicity chart in South America, some symptoms appeared back home-though not in the transplanted heart of recuperating Patient Philip Blaiberg (see MEDICINE). Barnard's wife Louwtjie, 39, in an interview with London's Sunday Express, had some heartfelt words about "this whole business of fame." Said Louwtjie: "The whole world is showering rose petals on Chris. He's getting fabulous offers, and women from all over the world write love letters to him. Suddenly he can do no wrong...
CREDIT Venturesome Trip For a number of years after the Diners' Club was founded in 1950, it reigned as the leader in the fledgling credit-card business - only to lose the title when American Express Co., a giant in the travel-services field, came out with an all-purpose card...
...travel agents with com puterized, one-stop reservation-processing for worldwide hotel and transportation accommodations. Last fall, in the biggest undertaking of all, the Diners' Club paid out $5,000,000 to acquire Fugazy Travel Bureau, the third largest travel agency in the U.S., after Amer ican Express and Thos. Cook...
Today, the Diners' Club is flourishing along with the rest of the credit-card industry. With annual billings of $700 million, it stands behind American Express (over $1 billion) and ahead of third-ranking Carte Blanche ($135 million) among so-called "travel and entertainment" card systems. Also stepping up the nation's credit-card spree are banking institutions, led by California's Bank of America, whose highly successful BankAmericard enjoys annual billings of $458.9 million. For all the competition, the Diners' Club achieved profits during fiscal 1967 of $2,500,000, a 21% increase over...
Harvard undergraduates are notoriously unemotional as far as intercollegiate sports are concerned. Dartmouth football games have been known to arouse occasional animal instincts and hockey fans sometimes make noise to keep warm but for the most part it's considered rather gauche to express any passionate interest in Harvard sports...