Word: riche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ordinary citizen." So said an exhibitor last week of the biggest auto show ever held in the U.S. The Third International Automobile Show filled Manhattan's Coliseum with more than 600 cars from 68 automakers in nine countries, and as always the crowds clustered admiringly around the rich and the racy. Britain's famed Rolls-Royce showed off a new Silver Cloud convertible ($19,350); there was a 150-m.p.h. Aston Martin sports sedan ($9,870), a new French Facel-Vega sedan ($12,800), and a handsome roadster ($10,500) from Germany's B.M.W. But the real...
...logic behind these particular forms of tax is that the products and services taxed are basically luxuries; thus, these increases will "soak the rich" without hurting the poor. While the idea involved may be quite noble, the facts of the case do not jibe with the principle. To many New Yorkers, neither taxi rides nor restaurant meals are luxuries; and, as the cabdrivers have pointed out, the taxi tax penalizes one segment of the population for the benefit of another, no more deserving group...
...second scene of the Adams House Henry IV, a good-sized lump of flesh is discovered slouching on a bench, snoring. It is the snore of authority, rich with phlegm and idiosyncrasy, and within a few minutes after it dwindles into wakefulness there is no question that things will be all right. The lump of course is Sir John Falstaff, in the considerably-augmented person of Daniel Seltzer, and the effervescent Mr. Seltzer is engaged in one of the most amazing tours de force ever perpetrated upon the risibilities of the Harvard community. He shows us an entirely fabulous creature...
Ever since British settlers and visiting aristocrats began potting away at elephants in the pristine wilds of East Africa at the turn of the century, the world's biggest unwalled zoo has been an almost exclusive preserve for the rich, the idle and the professional romantics, ranging from the sturdier of the Riviera set to Ernest Hemingway. But the airplane has made Africa accessible as never before, and since World War II a veritable army of hunters has swarmed into Africa's safari lands...
...surprise invasion of Suez by Britain and France, but unfortunately little has come of such proposals. The Atlantic Alliance might also form a useful body for coordinating military aid to other areas as well as among member nations. The NATO countries, especially West Germany and the U.S. are relatively rich in capital, and might channel strategic aid through a NATO council. In its next few years, NATO should adjust to the new conditions of the East-West rivalry if it is to continue to advance the essential community of interests which bind the United States and the European nations...