Word: heir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...back seat to no one-except in kidnaping, which French criminals apparently rate a U.S. specialty. The French do not even have a name for it, use the U.S. word, pronounced keednaping. But last week le crime américain was on every Parisian tongue. Little Eric Peugeot, an heir to one of France's greatest industrial (autos, appliances, heavy machinery) fortunes, was stolen in broad daylight and held for $100,000 ransom...
...irrelevant that global destruction is still imminent. In a reaction delayed for almost five years, the public has again started to worry about tomorrow. Thus, tomorrow’s generation is heir to a new optimism, a belief that a cause whose realization is five or 10 or 50 years off is not a hopeless cause...
...every political pundit and social gossipist hailed him as the man aging Dictator Franco had picked to some day become the King of Spain. All signs pointed that way. At Franco's invitation, he was in Spain studying at military academies while his father, Don Juan, 46, heir to the Bourbons and pretender to the empty throne, remained in self-imposed exile in Portugal. Only young Prince Juan Carlos dissented. "It is my father who is going to be "King," he insisted...
...Britain's bluest-blooded peers, the polo-playing Marquess of Blandford, 33, son and heir of the Duke of Marlborough, sued his wife Susan, mother of his three children (one died), for divorce after eight years of marriage, Blandford, whose family motto is "Faithful Though Unfortunate," charged that Susan, daughter of a wealthy bookseller, had misbehaved with Alan Heber-Percy, 24, a distant kinsman of the marquess...
English portraits of the 18th century were once among the bluest of blue chips in the art market. In 1921, U.S. Railroad Heir Henry E. Huntington plunked down better than $500,000 for Thomas Gainsborough's Blue Boy, setting the record for English canvases. Hundreds of other rich Americans were supplying themselves with high-priced ancestral portraits from England at about the same time. But the fashion waned and almost disappeared until last week, when Gainsborough's Mr. and Mrs. Robert Andrews fetched a fat $364,000 at auction in London...