Word: riche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...friendly telephone calls, visits, notes and gifts (from curtains to lemonade) that the Wrights received from many of their new neighbors, and by ignoring the completely peaceful arrival of another Negro family, the Glenn Browns, you left your readers with the impression that all Grosse Pointe is not only rich, exclusive, but nasty...
...prices. In Bel Air and Holmby Hills, homes worth upwards of half a million dollars are commonplace, and so are residents of the likes of Walt Disney, Red Skelton, Burt Lancaster, Industrialist Tex Thornton and Department Store Magnate Edward Carter. Other enclaves of the very rich are Beverly Hills' Trousdale Estates, where homes cost from $100,000 to $300,000, and Hancock Park, an old area of the central city that has been restored to extraordinary elegance. In Hancock Park, in stately mansions set on handsomely landscaped grounds, live Industrialist Norton Simon, Banker Howard Ahmanson and Norman Chandler, president...
...fact, Mao's mobs seemed set on obliterating China's pre-Communist identity. Across the country, monuments to China's own rich history came tumbling down. In Hangchow, a stone column commemorating a visit to the city by the 17th century Manchu Emperor Kang Hsi was pulled down. Though he brought more territory under Chinese rule than anyone since Genghis Khan, Kang Hsi had also allowed Catholic priests into the country and had approved China's first treaty with Russia, thus forfeiting his right to a place of honor in Mao's new China...
Last year the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission accused twelve directors, executives and employees of the Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. of using "insiders' " information to their own profit. According to the SEC, the twelve knew about the company's rich new mineral strike near Timmins, Ont., and started buying up stocks before a public announcement was made. Going to court, the SEC demanded among other things that the twelve be required to divest themselves of the Texas Gulf stock, plus any profits that they had picked up as insiders...
...Poor & Co., maker of rail-maintenance and other heavy-duty equipment, looked rich during the first half of 1966, with a profit rise of 20% on sales of $20 million. Now Poor has lost the man most credited with its gains. President Frederick A. Fielder, 53, announced that he is leaving Poor to take over the presidency of CF&I Steel. He will be replaced by John S. Newton, 57, who was recruited from his position as Goodman Division, Westinghouse Air Brake Co. vice president. Fielder is not saying how he plans to help CF&I recover from its slumping...