Word: mansions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...club, housed in a Tudor-style mansion a few minutes from downtown Atlanta, was founded in 1887 as a place for gentlemen to show off their fine horses. The club's 1,000 members are mostly business and social lions-known to Atlantans as "Big Mules"-who pay an initiation fee of $4,500 and annual dues of $750. Once mayors automatically became honorary members-if they did not already belong. The tradition was dropped in 1969 with the election of Sam Massell, a Jew. It was not renewed when Maynard Jackson, a black, became mayor...
...year it gives Executive Seminars to evangelize the wealthy. In an unusual event for the headquarters, ex-Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver and his wife Kathleen were baptized in the pool last Oct. 10. Expanding in Washington, meanwhile, Bright got wealthy laymen to donate $500,000 for a French-style mansion that the Catholic archdiocese wanted to unload as unfittingly grandiose, and he turned it into the Christian Embassy for low-key evangelism of government officials. Though less than 5% of his staff members have any theological training, many hold Ph.D.s or business school degrees. With its computerized efficiency, Campus Crusade...
When Carter left the mansion, he summed up the interviews as involving "good people, good advice, good folks." Later, en route to Washington, he was a bit more forthcoming. For one thing, he indicated that he has given up trying to persuade Young to join the Administration. Said Carter: "It's a shame. He's the best elected official I've ever met." Carter also said that his Secretary of Agriculture would "likely" come from the Midwest and his Secretary of the Interior from the West. This increased speculation that Minnesota Representative Bob Bergland would head Agriculture and Idaho Governor...
Menten grew progressively richer by speculating in stocks and art objects, filling his 20-room mansion with more art works (his collection includes paintings by Nicolaes Maes, Francisco Goya and Jan Sluyters), and building up millions of dollars in real estate holdings. His undoing began last spring with publicity that the firm of Sotheby-Mak Van Waay would auction part of Menten's art collection in Amsterdam. The same Israeli journalist, Haviv Kanaan, who had been accumulating evidence against Menten for decades, alerted the Dutch press and, once again, the government. The press, led by Hans Knoop, editor...
Dutch officials then launched a new investigation. They decided to arrest Menten on a Thursday, but delayed the seizure until the next Monday. When police arrived at his mansion, a servant reported the Mentens had left on a long trip-destination unknown...