Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mention any names," says Rent-a-Mink's Lillian Feinberg confidentially, "but a lot of our furs went to Washington for the inaugural." Many stars rent automobiles, for as business and professional men learned long ago, renting meant none of the headaches of car ownership, and the monthly statements make for handy documentation of business expenses. Some people who have difficulty obtaining automobile insurance have no such problem with rented cars. Claims Nate Rosenberg of Alert Car Rental (T-Bird, Cadillac convertibles, Continentals, etc.): "The stars make so much money they can't afford...
...likelihood is that more Americans will make the rent-it business even bigger, as home ownership and leisure time increase. The boom may well be symptomatic of a new aspect of the American character-the loss of price in acquisition and ownership of material things in exchange for an appreciation of practical convenience. Says United Rent-All's Patton: "I think the time is just around the corner when we'll be able to convince people that it's foolish to go out and spend a lot of money buying furniture. They'll be renting...
...Britain's finest racing stables; of a heart attack; at Cable Beach, Nassau. Financial chief of a famed British banking clan-and cousin to World War I's angriest young man, Poet Siegfried Sassoon-Sir Victor parlayed a fortune originally built in the opium trade into ownership of much of prewar Shanghai...
Married. Del E. Webb, 62, hustling construction king who shares ownership of the New York Yankees with Sportsman Dan Topping; and Toni Ince, 40, former Los Angeles millinery buyer; both for the second time; in Reno...
Pope John left no doubt that in the church's view progress and "the natural right of private ownership, inclusive of productive goods," are inseparable. But John was also aware that the set of the modern state is toward what he calls "socialization"-"the fruit and expression of a natural tendency, almost irrepressible in human beings, the tendency to join together to attain objectives which are beyond the capacity and means at the disposal of single individuals." But socialization does not necessarily turn men into automatons. "For socialization is not to be considered as a product of natural forces...