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...then I spotted your name in FORTUNE, which listed you among the roughly 150 Americans who now have at least $100 million the crowd isn't so small, after all. How few of them I know! Many of these super-rich seem to be technological arrivistes. Your own fascinating rise from obscurity (forgive me) typifies the phenomenon. Even though you graduated from Caltech with honors (in 1953!), who ever expected that your invention of some electronic what's-it-scope would lead to your having your own company and then to your being bought...
...richest man in England is so invisible that you undoubtedly have never even heard of him. Sir John Reeves Ellerman, who inherited a shipping fortune now worth almost $300 million, is 58 years old, but he has never made a public statement other than "I have no statement to make." Since he is hardly ever photographed, he has no trouble traveling incognito, often signing on one of his ships as a crewman though of course he doesn't work at it. Ellerman's passion is rodents, on which he wrote a three-volume anatomical study, the definitive work...
Revolt from Below. Since its founding, the Council has made historic contributions to the cause of Christian unity. There were 1,900 delegates and official observers at last week's event; the delegates represented 232 churches with 300 million members, a total approaching Catholicism's one-half billion adherents. Despite the difficulties of rapprochement with Rome, the Council has been instrumental in fostering an unprecedented atmosphere of contact and discussion between Protestants and Catholics. The Vatican was present at Uppsala in a message from Pope Paul expressing ecumenical affirmation, and in the form of 15 Catholics invited...
...source as "a solution seeking a problem." He was understandably impatient, but problem after problem has since been found- in ever increasing numbers. And the versatile laser is beginning to solve those problems in a manner that more than justifies the early, expansive claims. Lasers have become a $300 million-a-year business. As they are made more efficient and mass production cuts costs, the market should grow rapidly-to a billion dollars a year by 1975, according to laser experts...
Interplay. The money alone that goes into commercial production is stupefying. Film Director Stanley Kubrick, himself something of a big spender (2001: A Space Odyssey cost $11 million), observed recently that "a feature film made with the same kind of care as a commercial would have to cost $50 million." As it is, the cost of a one-minute commercial rehearsals, filming, reshooting, dubbing, scoring, animation, printing runs to an average of $22,000 or about five times more than a minute of TV entertainment...