Word: heiress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conspicuous expenditure-clothes, for example -and, often for the first time, drawing up family budgets. They are turning off light switches, keeping the heat at 68°, planning cut-rate Christmases and encouraging their kids to take part-time jobs. "We're not hurting-yet," says an heiress in New York's Westchester County. "But we've become aware for many reasons-environmental, social and fiscal-that we have lived unnecessarily high on the hog. You might say we're chickening out." Indeed, at a dinner party for ten with chicken rather than filet mignon...
...whether such other young women radicals as Kathy Boudin, who fled a bombed-out Greenwich Village town house in 1970, and Patricia Swinton, charged as a co-conspirator with Alpert but never found by police, may also come in out of the cold. A more intriguing question was whether Heiress Patricia Hearst is either willing or able to escape her radical abductors and re-embrace the family she has publicly as sailed...
Wilmot graduated from Oxford in 1661, travelled in Europe for a few years and was immediately received into the king's Court upon his return in 1664. By the following spring he had already begun to make an infamous name for himself: he kidnapped Elizabeth Mallet, an heiress whom he was courting. Charles II sent Rochester to the Tower for this, his earliest offense, although it took only three weeks to appease the king and set the prankster free until his trial came up. War broke out with the Dutch, Rochester volunteered, and soon released himself from further punishment...
...Rachel Fitler, 77, Philadelphia heiress and aunt of Happy Rockefeller, employee-employer relations are obviously something special. Last month Filler's engagement to her former chauffeur, 29-year-old Michael Wilson, was announced. Now comes word from an earlier Filler employee, ex-Chauffeur Hans von Aczel, 38, that he had been a Fitler fiance last year. "She asked me to marry her," claims von Aczel. "I'm not going to lie. I would have liked to live that kind of life." Aczel says he was promised $3,000 a month for pocket money, which would have...
...draft of a new abortion law. "She was impressed by me and the work I was doing. She then employed me and the romance started," explained Michael Wilson, 29. In fact, Wilson's performance as a butler and chauffeur so impressed Rachel Fitler, 77, that the Pennsylvania heiress and aunt of Happy Rockefeller has accepted her former employee's proposal of marriage. The Welsh coal miner's son denies any attachment to his fiancée's fortune, unofficially estimated at $2.5 million. "I must say it crossed my mind once in a while," he says...