Word: owners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Georgian mansion had seen the day when 30 guests could be seated at the Sheraton banquet table, and when it took a staff of 14 to keep up the house and 18 in the garden. The owner was John S. Phipps, whose father had made a fortune with Andrew Carnegie, and who had built for himself in Old Westbury, L.I., a regal private park for quiet ponds and hemlock hedges. Last week the "guests" were the paying kind who had come to see one of the most delightful art exhibits of the summer...
...mass man and the industries that sustain him - is the change they work on the Courier-Freeman. When he first knew the paper, it was a respectable and fairly honest sheet that printed news without fear or favor, as editorials always put it. Then the Courier's owner died, and his nephew was finally forced to sell out to a West Coast moneyman. The paper passed from the control of a publisher who is also a businessman to that of a businessman who is only incidentally a publisher-the sort of change, the author clearly implies, that is responsible...
...Abbes Garcia had misled the Venezuelans on how much explosive was needed. Though three others were killed, Betancourt survived with minor burns. And enough of the Olds was left to make it easily traceable. The owner was quickly found, and he spilled the story. Venezuelan cops had no trouble finding the abandoned detonating device. The lesson seemed to be that any political figure who displeases Trujillo can realistically fear that the dictator will try to murder...
...establishing the fact that the hero's parents are rich but plenty neurotic. It is a poor parlor psychologist who cannot deduce from this that Alfred, in an effort to outdo his father, will marry money (Joanne Woodward), win a position in a banking firm by saving its owner's grandson from drowning, devote himself single-mindedly to his career while his wife buckets around with the Long Island mental-cruelty set, and finally be saved from dissolution by the love of a good woman (Ina Balin...
...half-finished complex of glass and brick is the largest TV factory in the world and even includes a studio that can be flooded to create a lake set. It represents a .$45 million bet that the state-chartered, viewer-financed (for an annual fee of $11.20 per set owner) BBC-TV can crack U.S. domination of world TV markets...