Word: riche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...victim was Marjorie Winifred Bird, a rich, neurotic American widow who hoped that the U.S. would one day be come a monarchy so that she could be its queen. The accused were Nicolas Sturdza, a penniless Rumanian homo sexual who styled himself prince and claimed that he was descended from the Moldavian kings, and Dr. Gérard Sa voy, a shady Lausanne psychiatrist who specialized in wealthy female patients and who, over the course of 18 months, prescribed for Mrs. Bird 18,970 barbiturate pills. Last week, in a Lausanne courtroom, the doctor was found guilty of murdering...
Last week the bloody back-and-forth took on a new dimension. Down from the scrub-grown hills of India's mineral-rich Bihar state swarmed hordes of fierce Adivasis (literally, aborigines) armed with bows and arrows. Recent converts to Christianity, but not weaned from their fierce ways, they had been enraged by reports of anti-Christian persecution across the border. Before they returned home, they had burned two Moslem villages, left rows of charred corpses bristling with arrow shafts...
...small as it is precocious, Carnegie's G.S.I.A. was launched just 15 years ago with $6,000,000 from the late William L. Mellon, then board chairman of Gulf Oil. Now almost twice as rich the one-building school holds itself to 125 students and 35 professors (average age: 34). The school's renown comes from its stress on "scientific decision making"-a systems approach to orchestrating companies by using the most advanced technological tools. Such gelt-edged Gestalt, said one British economist in a recent assessment of J.S.^business schools, has made Carnegie "the one with...
...same time, Europe's inflation has made U.S. exports more competitive in world markets, shaken confidence in foreign currencies and prompted many U.S. and foreign investors to shift their "safe haven" capital to the U.S. Much of this money comes from wealthy Latin Americans, oil-rich Arabs and, Washington believes, even from Communist bigwigs-possibly including the Red Chinese. Investors are also uneasy about a slide in the French stock market, Italy's new austerity program and the forthcoming British elections. Says a top banker in Paris: "The economic news from the U.S. is good...
...screen newcomers, Tippy Walker and Merrie Spaeth, aged 17 and 15, who ebulliently transform what might have been a routine Gotham sex farce into a king-size sleeper. Merrie demonstrates that the child of a broken home has every advantage, while Tippy makes light of being simultaneously unwanted, filthy rich, and psychoanalyzed: "Dr. Greentree gets so mad if I don't dream...