Word: res
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...briefly with a Wall Street firm-as a messenger. At a shoe factory, his job was so lowly that "even the office girls wanted me to address them by their last names." He even worked for 20th Century-Fox, where he sent complimentary tickets for premières to dignitaries. "I now would like to apologize to former Mayor Wagner," said Joe, "whose ticket I gave to my grandmother...
...sellout opening-night crowd of 2,000 agreed that Karajan's confidence in Karajan was justified. Director Karajan swept away the clumping athletics and far-out allegory of most recent Walküres. If what was left was often static staging, it was well coordinated with the music, which Conductor Karajan molded superbly. He toned down the singers' usual tendency to bellow and brought out a fresh quality of refinement through subtly shaded dynamics and sensitively modeled phrases. "Chamber music of the soul," rhapsodized one critic, while others looked ahead to the addition of Das Rheingold next year...
...late November, the Douglas board of directors knew that only a merger would save the firm. At Douglas' request, Stanley Osborne, a partner in the Wall Street investment banking house of Lazard Frčres, began shopping for bids. Well-heeled McDonnell Co. offered the most cash?an immediate $69 million for authorized but unissued Douglas stock. It had already snapped up 300,000 shares of Douglas stock at depressed prices, a move that made it Douglas' largest stockholder...
Though the Rothschild Frères cards are the first to be issued by a European bank, they are hardly the thing for the Europe-on-$5-a-day set. They will be honored at only about 120 spots in Paris and resorts in the south of France, including airline offices, the best hotels, restaurants, fashion houses and-for those who like to buy their Rolls-Royces or Mercedes on impulse-prestige auto dealers. What's more, only the elite with Rothschild bank accounts will be eligible for the cards, and those accounts are rather hard...
Actually, Rothschild Frères was moved more by pique than profit. It seems that some Paris stores have lately been nervy enough to question big checks drawn on Rothschild accounts. The bank hopes that the cards will end what one irritated Rothschild officer described as those nasty incidents that "occur from time to time, when a merchant insists on calling us before he accepts payment by check. It has proved embarrassing for us and for our clients...