Word: jacobe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with an equally dismayed colleague at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, B. Gentry Lee, Sagan sought sponsors for a TV film on space exploration. What they ended up with was an agreement with KCET, the Los Angeles PBS station, for an even bigger project: a full science series somewhat like Jacob Bronowski's acclaimed The Ascent of Man, with Sagan as guide and principal author. Ascent's British producer, Adrian Malone, was even recruited to ride herd on the enterprise...
LIBERALS HAVE always been good at internecine warfare; this fall's New York Senate race is a good example of how a head-on collision of two liberals may elect a conservative. The three-way race pits liberal Sen. Jacob K. Javits (R-NY) against slightly more liberal Democratic challenger Elizabeth Holtzman in a debilitating battle that may throw the election to an ultraconservative who opposes SALT, ERA ratification, and favors a constitutional amendment banning abortion...
...could hardly hope for a better successor to Jacob Javits than Elizabeth Holtzman. Their styles match almost to a fault; both are characterized as extremely intellectual, hard-working and issue-oriented, if detached and aloof from their colleagues. And both have worked to champion social justice issues, both have remained committed to liberalism when it was no longer a popular cause...
...disagreement was largely a matter of style. Discreet and conservative in its ways, the Rothschild bank is the epitome of bowler hat British banking. The Rothschild trust, known as RIT for short, is something of a swinger in world financial circles. Under Jacob's management, its assets have increased astronomically, from $14.3 million to $239 million since 1970, through investments in art galleries and auction houses, among others...
...Jacob also knows what's in a name. He proposed calling his operation the J. Rothschild Investment Trust in order to distinguish it from the N.M. Rothschild bank, but Evelyn turned down that suggestion. Finally Jacob capitulated. Saying that he was sad that the "difference of opinion within the family" had become public, he resigned as a director of N.M. Rothschild and agreed to change his firm's name to RIT Ltd. However, he has put management of its assets into another organization called J. Rothschild and Co., meaning he will continue to display the family label...