Word: riche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bobby has The Name. Though both wear an affluent air and came into family money-an immense advantage for a man with political ambitions-neither is hurt by the aura of wealth. Indeed, it is a peculiarity of American political reporting that only self-made men are generally labeled "rich." (Actually, Lindsay's total $140,000 inheritance is exceeded by the annual return alone on Bobby's fortune of perhaps $15 million.) What brought them together, after they patched up an unseemly fracas over whether Lindsay had been rude to Kennedy, is a proposition on the November ballot...
...until Patrick's great-grandson John Joyce Gilligan decided to run for Congress in 1964 that the two families' destinies converged. Jack Gilligan not only beat the Taft-ruled organization's candidate, Representative Carl Rich, but in his re-election race this fall is running against Alphonso's great-grandson, Robert Taft Jr., grandson of a U.S. President, son of Mr. Republican...
...hard to be narrow when TV shows yesterday's battles in Viet Nam, when one out of five Americans moves each year, when the small-towner can often afford the same cars for his garage or the same clothes for his wife (Norells or Balenciagas) as the old-rich East, when Ohioans or Kansans or Oklahomans routinely take a winter vacation in the Bahamas or cruise the Greek islands in summer...
...Strauss, conducted with thunderous brilliance by the late composer's gifted friend, Karl Bohm. By turns raging and receding, mischievous and mystical, the orchestration powerfully underscored the mysterious gulfs between the two worlds and buttressed each role with bold, contrasting shades of vocal writing. Big, robust, infinitely rich, Die Frau was symphonic opera music-and Metropolitan Opera-at its best...
...concentrating on mass-breeding pearlfish in his laboratory, attempting to produce enough to "seed" California's rice fields and, eventually, the flood plains in California and other states. He envisons the day when many of the intermittently flooded fields in the U.S. will be rich in pearlfish eggs. Then as spring rains herald another flood season, millions of eggs will hatch, providing nature's own form of instant mosquito control...