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Nominations were made by a committee of the Associated Harvard Alumni, headed by Walter. N. Rothschild Jr. '42, a retired New York City department store executive. The committee's choices are based on suggestions of University officials, Harvard Clubs and classes, and individual graduates...
...ERIC ROTHSCHILD...
Looking up the address of Baroness Alix de Rothschild in the Paris phone directory, Construction Worker Josef Stadnik proceeded to her duplex apartment, where he confronted her son, David, 27, with a pistol. Demanding 2,000,000 francs ($360,000) to spare David's life, the nervous gunman forced the young heir to call his father, Rothschild Bank President Baron Guy de Rothschild, for the ransom. No sooner said than done. "In a situation like mine, you know, with all the contacts you have, it is not hard to find a big sum," David later explained. When Baron...
...Securities and Exchange Commission does not permit Cornfeld to operate because he refuses to submit to normal SEC scrutiny. Nonetheless, a blue-ribbon team of U.S. and foreign investment bankers underwrote the issue. Led by Manhattan's Drexel Harrison Ripley, the syndicate included France's Banque Rothschild, Britain's Hill Samuel, and Manhattan's Smith, Barney...
...power to play the role of a loner in international politics. Last November, against the weight of global financial opinion and the advice of most of his own ministers, he stunned the world by refusing to devalue the franc, which was already weak and unsteady. Pompidou, a former Rothschild banker, could not bring himself to defy reality. "Common sense advises us to align the franc on a rate recognized in foreign markets," he explained to the French in a special statement. "We content ourselves with taking note of a fact and acting...