Word: riche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rich and the Super-Rich, Lundberg...
Beer & Cyanide. The Biafrans have little left to eat except fruit and their customary yams and cassavas-and even these starchy staples are becoming scarcer. Unable to ship in supplies, they have for months virtually had to do without the protein-rich dried fish, beef and milk that before the war they bought outside the region. More important, the Biafrans have been driven from their richest croplands. Farming has been utterly disrupted by the war and, now that the rainy season has come, there will be almost nothing to harvest for weeks...
...confess that at first I was strongly tempted to ignore your curious letter requesting guidelines on the art of being very, very rich. I simply did not believe your statement that you had suddenly acquired a yearly income of $5,000,000. Why hadn't I ever heard...
...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...
...custom-made instrument has, among other features, a special thick-bellied shape for resonance and carrying power and an unusually close spacing between the strings and fingerboard for easier fingering. He has his own method of drawing the bow more slowly across the strings to achieve a "rich, passionate" tone. He also argues that classical bassists could learn much from the free wheeling devices of jazz and rock, both of which he plays with enthusiasm...