Word: fonds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wexford, the Virginia hideaway built by the late President on Rattlesnake Mountain. But there the similarity ends, for Canton-born Quing Non Wong, 31, is Class of 1955 (a history and literature major), father of three daughters, and a Manhattan investment banker. Both he and his French wife are fond of horses, and since the local hunt club, Piedmont Fox Hounds, regularly traipses across the 40-acre estate, the Wongs are hoping that they will soon join the chase...
LIFE WITH PICASSO, by Francoise Gilot. Acid oozes from the pen of a discarded mistress who, in nine years with Picasso, served as his model and the mother of two children, only slowly realizing the real role she played in the life of the man who was fond of proclaiming: "As far as I am concerned, there are two kinds of women-goddesses and doormats." Mile. Gilot's account of the master's views on art-his and others'-is illuminating, but best of all are the tart portraits of a monumental ego, made more devastating...
...Smith syndicate made a deal with the German magazine Der Stern, which obtained first publication rights for some $3,500, and other sales abroad brought the total above $12,000. Der Stern last week published excerpts from the essays, which sounded pretty much like the sort of thing most fond parents of teen-agers are familiar with. But there was a special approach to some subject matter. Writing on democracy, the prince noted a little uneasily that it means giving "equal voting power to people haying unequal ability to think." He also deplored the habit of voting "for a particular...
Poets are fond of saying that life imitates art-but does it have to imitate television? The fact that it doesn't is perhaps the reason that 32-year-old Mark Fein last week was on trial for his life...
...equivalent amount in cash even if they had not worked any overtime. Ford would have none of this, and the strike was on. It immediately cut Ford's passenger car production by 16% , its truck output by 34%. Its continuance not only would threaten the industry's fond hopes to run up another record auto year, but could trigger the dampening reaction in the economy that economists have been fearing since the beginning of the labor negotiations-which have certainly turned out to be more difficult and unpleasant than anyone could have expected...