Word: rothschild
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...overcame them. I particularly liked the part in my dreams when I gave myself a standing ovation." Humorist Art Buchwald, 46, was telling it like it had been to the sesquicentennial brunch of New York's Jewish Child Care Association. His fantasy that he was really a Rothschild who had been kidnaped by gypsies didn't quite come true, but as a columnist for the Paris Herald Tribune, "I lived it up with the international set, sailed on Onassis' yacht, played roulette with King Farouk and danced until dawn with the Duchess of Windsor...
...battle against the project began in 1963, when L.O. Rothschild, a New York attorney and conservationist, received his copy of Con Ed's 1962 annual report, containing an artist's rendering and description of the Storm King facility, Enraged, Rothschild wrote to The New York Times, and the Times, in an editorial, criticized the plan to "plunk down a couple of power in- stallations right in the heart of one of the most stunning natural regions in the eastern United States...
...November 1963 Rothschild and five other people formed the Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference, and gathered about 30 conservation organizations to aid its cause...
Security men almost outnumbered the guests at the Guy de Rothschild chateau outside Paris-and with good reason. A dazzle of diamonds winked and twinkled in all directions, from hair, hands, necks and bosoms. The Duchess of Windsor's were canary. Signora Gianni Agnelli's stones coruscated white, pink and green. But Elizabeth Taylor outshone everyone at the costume ball with the 69.4-carat, million-dollar "Burton Diamond" at her throat, and her black hair caught up in a net studded with 1,000 small diamonds and edged with 25 larger ones. Perhaps to relieve the monotony...
...large part, such rosy statistics are De Gaulle's legacy. Le General recruited a group of first-rate minds to oversee French development. Among De Gaulle's economic managers was a Rothschild banker, Georges Pompidou, who became his successor as President in 1969. The economic group's most radical proposal by far was to reverse France's historic trend toward ever tighter centralization, which was begun in the 17th century when Louis XIV began holding permanent court at Versailles, thus depriving the nobility of their regional power bases...