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...issues are an illustration of capitalism at its best, or worst, depending on how you look at it," says A. Robert Towbin of L.F. Rothschild, Unterberg, Towbin, an investment banking firm that specializes in fledgling companies selling their first stock to the general public. The money these businesses raise helps them to expand, but the stock can be a high-risk game since these young companies are frequently dealing with promising but untested technologies in untried markets. Despite the uncertainties involved, investors are now rushing to buy the sudden surge of new stock issues as they dream of discovering...
There was Heineken (of the beer) in The Netherlands and Rothschild (of the bank) in Great Britain and Lanvin (of the perfume) in France and Agnelli (of the automobiles) in Italy, all of varying language and dress and humor, but comrades-in-arms in their exotic adventure of jets and ships and marketplaces. It is an astonishing experience to dine with this fraternity and learn that a British banker has spent the week in Charlotte, N.C., where he guides a financial institution; a German economic expert has seen more Dallas Cowboys games than most Texans; an Italian industrialist has supped...
...garden, historically, is a more appropriate place to start. The childish "What if that envisions a mansion is not nearly so ambitious as one that seeks to transplant cypresses from one soil to another (as Hearst did in San Simeon) or to display the rarest species. (After seeing Lionel Rothschild's Japanese garden in London, the Japanese Ambassador was said to remark: "We have nothing like this in Japan.") Versailles, the model of gardening for so many big spenders, must have had Eden as its model, as a place at once disciplined and open-ended. That...
...prohibited the operation of any nuclear power stations until federally approved permanent storage sites for nuclear wastes were also available. The strongest opponent of the measure was Union Electric Co. of St. Louis, whose $1.3 billion plant, scheduled for completion in early 1983, would have been jeopardized. Said Sandy Rothschild, a house builder and opponent of the proposal: "I think people are not willing, with the information available, to close the option on nuclear power...
...Rothschild family told Yale officials they will give the manuscript to Hebrew University in Jerusalem, recipient of many donations from the Rothschilds...