Word: heir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...refreshing novelty when the A.F.L.-C.I.O. officially suggests, as it did a fortnight ago, that the top tax rate be slashed from the present 91% to 65%. And it is a sign that an idea is on the march when a Democratic President of the U.S., a political heir of Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman, declares that "our tax system exerts too heavy a drag on growth . . . siphons out of the private economy too large a share of personal and business purchasing power . . . reduces the financial incentives for personal effort, investment and risk taking...
...Lords, the largely ceremonial upper house that has been called "the last infirmary of noble minds." Instead, Mister Wedgwood Benn, as he insisted on calling himself, ran for re-election from Bristol South-East, and easily won. But the High Court ruled that a peer's male heir, ''lawfully begotten," may not renounce his title. Protesting that he was thus ''the victim of my father's virtue." "the Reluctant Peer'' was forced to stand aside while the defeated Tory candidate occupied his seat in Commons...
...nearby Army Language School). But starting with Cowel College in 1965, each school will also take its own academic tack-social science for Cowell, natural science, economics and public affairs for the others that will be built over three decades. Stressing seminars and tutorials, the colleges will have heir own faculty "fellows" but also share them with other colleges in a setup that big university departments. Also frowned on: fraternities, bigtime football and cars on campus (bicycles will be permitted...
Wilhelmina was the child of a May and December marriage. King William III married the German Princess Emma of Waldeck-Pyrmont when he was 62 and she 20. Wilhelmina, their only child, was sole heir to the 400-year-old Orange-Nassau line. Closely sheltered, she led so desperately lonely a life that she once admonished one of her dolls, "If you are naughty, I shall make you into a queen, and then you won't have any other little children to play with." Null & Void. In her solitude, she developed a faith so intensely personal that whenever...
Bean rules his board of directors-two sons and two grandsons-with a firm hand, and brushes aside suggestions from his heir apparent, Grandson Leon Gorman, 27, that the company "automate" by buying an Addressograph. "Why expand when you're 90 years old?" demands Bean. Besides, "I get three good meals a day, and I can't eat four." Devoted to quality and his customers, Bean has a simple business philosophy...