Word: highness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...investment banker, senior partner of Lehman Brothers and one of Wall Street's most powerful figures; in Sands Point, N.Y. Born to wealth, "Bobby" Lehman might have devoted his life to art collecting and horse breeding, both of which he loved, but his greatest enthusiasm was for high finance-and for 48 years he multiplied his family firm's prestige and fortune. He was one of the first to see the enormous potential of aviation, helped bankroll the beginnings of American, Pan American and Trans World Airlines. He was a friend to retail merchandising when other bankers scoffed...
...Florida Baseball School. "The school didn't have any facilities for a woman," she says. "They tried to set up some temporary quarters, but they were so awful that I moved into a motel." Though she confesses that "those six weeks felt like 60 years," she graduated with high marks...
...also have big names to offer. On NBC, Bill Cosby will play a schoolteacher and Debbie Reynolds a sportswriter's wife. ABC will go with a musical variety series called Jimmy Durante Presents the Lennon Sisters Hour, strange as it seems, the sneak-preview of that show received high ratings last spring...
...about spending the long, hot summer in school? Few American schoolchildren would be expected to stay away voluntarily from the softball lot, the beach, the fishing hole. Yet, in Atlanta, where few schools are air-conditioned, almost one-third of 38,000 eligible high school pupils have volunteered this year to stick to their books through the sweltering heat of July and August...
...taking advantage of Atlanta's new four-quarter plan for year-round schooling, the first to be adopted by an American city since the 1930s. The flexible scheme will allow them to choose any quarter they like for their vacation, or to attend all year without interruption. High-schoolers in a hurry can compress five years of studies into 45 months by taking extra quarters. Slow learners can use summer lessons to make up failed courses, take their time mastering subjects difficult for them, without dropping a year behind their class. Scholars interested in improving their prospects for entering...