Word: riche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...making money without working, which for Tony means playing golf. Not that he hasn't tried: last year's No. 4 money winner (with $67,112) took five weeks of vacation this spring, spent most of it lying around the house, contemplating ways to get rich quicker. All that happened was that his golf game went to pot. But last week Tony finally staggered home $20,000 to the good in New York's Thunderbird Classic and made a solemn resolution. From now on, when Lema hears that Arnie Palmer or Jack Nicklaus is taking a week...
Died. Morris Cafritz, 77, Washington real estate man and builder, known for his 100-acre Parklands housing development and shopping center in southeast D.C., but-best remembered as the rich husband of Gwen Cafritz, who in the '40s and '50s clashed cocktail crystals with Perle Mesta for the scepter of hostess with the mostess until Jackie Kennedy arrived; of a heart attack; in Washington...
...Hooly Monke. While medieval monasteries waxed rich in land holdings, Bury St. Edmunds had fallen deeply into debt to Jewish moneylenders at the end of the 12th century. Then a strong, stubborn monk, appropriately named Samson, became abbot shortly after a young boy was found murdered. The Jews were blamed. Eight years later 57 Jews were massacred in the town. Samson got the King to expel the Jews from Bury St. Edmunds, and shortly cleared the abbey's debt, wresting back the glory that the monastery once enjoyed...
Finding them is not always easy. Manhattan Personnel Consultant Rich ard Clarke, a Negro who organized the recruiting jamboree at the Waldorf, estimates that there are only five Negro graduates available for every 100 management-level jobs open to them. There are 25,000 Negroes among this year's 500,000 graduates, and many of them do not choose corporate careers. For example, 21-year-old Edward Wong, a B-plus graduate from Chicago's Loyola University, had interviews with eight companies but elected to go to law school. Negro students have traditionally opted for such sheltered fields...
That tale was wagged around the corridors of Geneva's Palais des Nations last week, as the first great confrontation of the world's rich and poor nations reached its final hours. For three months at the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development, 75 underdeveloped nations squared off against 29 industrialized nations, which had been shotgunned into the meeting in the first place. At issue was how to improve the poorer nations' dwindling share of world trade. The underdeveloped bloc came up with a list of extravagant demands that would boggle even a sultan: preferential tariff treatment...