Word: riche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Parking. Thailand now has few er than 10,000 registered working elephants v. some 150,000 automobiles. Says one old-school Thai: "Oh, yes, rich men still use elephants, but only when they go into the forest to work. Where friends can see them, they ride automobiles instead...
...course the really clever, or the very rich, can keep on going to school until they have passed the magic age of 26, beyond which practically no one is drafted. Thousands of students are, in fact, populating our graduate institutions with little motivation other than of escaping the government's summons. And now marriage has been added to the list of plots by which the unwilling can avoid the discomfort of serving in the military...
This fall regulars in the scrum included Bill Pfeiffer, who did especially well in the lineouts, Ed Quattlebaum, Duane Aid-rich, a good hooker despite lack of experience, Lee freshman, Doug Hall, and Chuck Strozier. Sometime scrumhalf Ray Vickers, tough Bruce Caputo, speedy Gage McAgee, the elusive runner John Dickinson, and Mike Burbank, who was best on defense, stood out among the backs...
...affluence of a personal foundry came to Capralos late. During his student days in Paris at the Grande Chaumiere, he was so poor that he filched sketching pads. Accused of the theft by an English art student, Capralos threw back the Elgin marbles: "You rich Englishmen have stolen the whole frieze of the Parthenon! How dare you protest when a poor Greek takes a sheet of your paper?" During World War II, Capralos made his own warring frieze a 135-ft. by 33-ft. monument, in plaster relief, to the Greek repulse of the Italian army in the Pindus Mountains...
Public Share. Like most of Mexico's got-rich-quick tycoons, Trouyet has close ties with the country's ex-Presidents, particularly Multimillionaire Miguel Alemán, who has a large stake in Mexico City's Continental Hilton hotel, of which Trouyet is chairman. But Trouyet differs from the usual run of Mexican businessmen in two important ways. He does not complain about the government's growing ownership of Mexican business, and he has done more than anyone to encourage public share-ownership in a country where tightly held family businesses are the rule. With...