Word: riche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that regulates their lives. When a Frenchman exclaims, "Mon foie!", his cry from the gland wins instant sympathy, even in a Place de la Concorde traffic jam. Depending on whether it is swollen, too hard, too tender, congested, enrheumed or, as the French say, "intoxicated" from a surfeit of rich food, the liver is blamed for virtually every physical malfunction from ingrown toenails to inadequate amatory performance...
...suicide-is undergoing a renaissance. Even the modest homeowner wants more of them; small houses, which moved up from a single bath to a bath and a half about ten years ago, are now being built with two and 2½ bathrooms, and bigger ones at that. And the rich are asking for and getting bathrooms with pool-type tubs, wall-to-wall carpeting, mirrored ceilings, arched canopies, private patios, and sometimes a picture-window view. In these circles, the bathroom is no longer thought of in its puritan context as strictly (and slightly shamefully) utilitarian, but as a sybaritic...
...apparently inspired in part by the glimpses of Roman high laving indulged in by Cleopatra Taylor and Antony Burton in Shakespeare's latest spectacular. The Crane Co. has taken the plunge with a line of sunken tubs, dubbed the Marc Antony (6 ft. long and "rich in majestic beauty"), the Caesar ("once exclusive with emperors"), and the Centurion ("a masterful tribute to the mighty Roman legions...
...ledgers cannot reflect the Rothschild lands, their possessions and influence accumulated over the generations, their priceless collections of art. Though the Rothschilds' fortune has been subdivided more than 100 times over the years, it still seems inexhaustible. The family stands as elegant proof that to be truly rich in Europe is to be richer than anywhere else...
With help from the World Bank, de Rothschild Freres created another consortium that has put up $166 million to exhume a rich iron lode in Mauritania. Among other companies that the Rothschilds control, Pefiarroya in Chile mines 7% of the free world's lead, and Le Nickel in New Caledonia produces 10% of the world's nickel. Under Guy, the Rothschilds have also built France's biggest private uranium mining company, which supplies some of the raw material for De Gaulle's force de frappe. And it was de Rothschild Freres that drafted the plan...