Word: lavishly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...occasion a new 56-ft. by 46-ft. stage of pliant plywood was constructed over the Met's pitted and creaking timbers. On opening night virtually every square foot of the new stage was covered with dancers as the company unveiled Choreographer Kenneth MacMillan's lavish new version of Romeo and Juliet. For many in the celebrity-studded audience, headed by Vice President Hubert Humphrey and U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, the sole attraction was Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn in the lead roles. If they came hoping to see the classic couple in a round of flashy virtuosity...
...Lavish Living. After its start at selling to G.I.s, Cornfeld's Investors Overseas soon spread out to sell to Europeans, has now expanded globally into more than 100 nations. Sales doubled annually from the start, but Investors Overseas really hit its stride in 1962 after Cornfeld launched what he calls the Fund of Funds, which is composed entirely of shares in 16 other mutual funds and management companies. By reinvesting its profits ($1,600,000 last year), Investors Overseas has expanded far beyond mutual funds. It has acquired two life-insurance companies with policies of more than $200 million...
...born, Brooklyn-reared Bernie Cornfeld, a mild-mannered bachelor of 37 who does not look as if he would ever talk back to his boss. He drives a Lancia Flaminia convertible, sails a 42-ft. Corsair, owns a ski lodge and a castle in France and lives in a lavish villa in suburban Geneva with two Great Danes and a Chinese houseman. He decorates his penthouse office with red silk Empire furnishings and swarms of attractive, multilingual secretaries, trains and entertains his worldwide force of 2,000 salesmen with everything from art lectures to cocktail parties in a 50-room...
Bright & Young. Cornfeld keeps his empire growing by surrounding himself with bright young executives (average age: 36), who are attracted by stock options so lavish that 300 of his key people own 82% of Investors Overseas; Cornfeld's 18% interest has a book value of $2,973,600. By introducing similar stock options to Investors Planning, Cornfeld expects to give the U.S. fund enough fresh thrust to expand it from a regional mid-Atlantic fund into a nationwide operation. Investors Planning will keep its name and its management, which is headed by Cornfeld's old boss, Walter Benedick...
...lections municipales, Charles de Gaulle decided to think grand. Ordered onto the hustings were no fewer than 16 of his Cabinet officers, including Premier Georges Pompidou, a onetime banker and literary critic who had never run for anything in his life. Everywhere the invading Gaullist commandos were given lavish support by the regional stations of the government-controlled radio and television...