Word: riche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...houses are still standing and there are still one or two spreads that make Texas' King Ranch look like a truck garden.* But the vast green bulk of the pampas is being crosshatched by fences and boundary roads into smaller and smaller holdings. So, too, is the Midas-rich patrón of yesteryear giving way to hundreds of relatively small farmers and cattlemen who count themselves lucky to make a middle-class living. In the late 1930s, one-fifth of Argentina, or 139 million acres, belonged to just 2,000 families. Today, says Gustavo Pueyrredón, vice...
...calls them his "glad rags"-he will march up to a mob of children at a parochial school and say: "How are you, children? It's Santa Glaus!" When he welcomes visitors to his stately residence on Commonwealth Avenue in suburban Brighton, he waves a hand at the rich furnishings and cracks: "What do you think of the joint?" Cushing loves to tell stories on himself-such as when he was summoned to give the last rites to a man at the scene of an accident. "Do you believe in God the Father...
...group of rich Eastern lawyers began meeting in Saratoga Springs "to get the benefit of the waters and to see our friends." Although they called themselves the American Bar Association, for years they stayed so Saratoga-centered that one member recoiled at the very idea of gathering in "faraway" Cleveland. "Why, we'll have a lot of strangers at the meeting," he warned...
...Europeans concede from hard experience that American businessmen are by no means innocents abroad. "U.S. business methods are often the best there are," says Michael Grunelius, Paris-based specialist in placing corporate executives. "But these methods have to be changed to accommodate local conditions." Increasingly, U.S. companies find the rich European market, for all its problems, worth a try. Since 1958, more than 2,100 U.S. companies have started new operations or licensed the manufacture of their products in Western Europe. Only a handful have failed...
...wasn't there: Admiral Sir George Brydges Rodney. A gambler, always in debt, he had enough ships in the West Indies in 1781 to retain command of the /western Atlantic. But first he went off on an orgy of legalized piracy to seize and loot the rich little Dutch colony of St. Eustatius. Then, complaining that he was suffering from "the gout and the gravel," he sailed back to England in the luxury of one of his biggest ships...