Word: namee
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With 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency, Nixon should carry 239; Humphrey, 215; Alabama's former Governor George Wallace, 17; and 67 are so close as to be uncallable. The tossups are Iowa, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Thus Pennsylvania lives up to its name as the Keystone State: without its electoral votes, Nixon would have to win virtually all of the other close states to go over the top; without its votes, Humphrey could not win, period...
...that I know many of the 100,000 Americans who are now worth more than $1,000,000. But your income suggested a fortune of at least $100 million, which clearly ranked you in what I thought was our own small crowd. So I should have recognized your name. For all I knew, you were really some journalist "researching" one of those dreadful exposes' of the superrich, such as that new book by Ferdinand Lundberg, which my wife says is so old hat that she may demand her $10 back. On principle, of course...
...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...
...great shakes as a gift: 32 books and a few bolts of cloth from a governor of Britain's East India Co. to a struggling American college known as the Connecticut Collegiate School. Yet the colonists so deeply appreciated it that they changed the school's name to honor the donor. And now, having expanded over the years, the present university last week sent 150 alumni, professors and students led by President Kingman Brewster all the way to Wrexham, Wales, to unveil a plaque commemorating the gift made by Elihu Yale...