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...Midas touch. He was a wunderkind of the investment-banking world in the 1930s -- "the last man hired on Wall Street before the Crash," he says with a wry smile -- and later helped develop the Aspen, Colo., resort where he plans to take some of his eleven grandchildren skiing in two weeks. (Nitze has two sons and two daughters; there is also one great-grandchild so far, but at age three he is not yet up to the intermediate slopes that Nitze favors.) On his 1,900-acre farm in Maryland, which produces corn, soybeans, wheat, cattle, pigs and sheep...
...Ticket clenched in my hand as I poked it out at the usher, I felt the once-familiar tremor of seeing a show. Beneath the domed murals of the main hall, people sipped champagne from slender glasses, and children were seen--not heard. Grandmothers' wrinkled hands locked with their grandchildren's small, pink fingers. Inside the theater was the matinee atmosphere I associated with The Nutcracker. Adults called across seats to one another, and children skipped up and down the aisles in a rush of anticipation...
...think St. John's is something to joke about," James said. "Maybe when I'm 65, I can laugh with my grandchildren about...
Sometimes these pickers seem more casual than they turn out to be. Take Alberta Freeman, 55, who turns up at a recycling trailer in a New Orleans supermarket parking lot with 30-gal. garbage bags bulging with aluminum cans. Freeman, her daughter, a daughter-in-law and eleven grandchildren collaborate in can picking. Last year the family cleared some $500, which Grandma naturally spent on the grandchildren...
...afford a visit to what some call their grandmother country don't all return charmed. "On my first visits I was shocked by all the slums and poverty," says George Hunnicutt, 63, great-grandson of the Confederate colony's first doctor. "So last year, when I took my grandchildren there, I decided to show them the storybook side of America. We went to Disney World, Epcot Center and Sea World...