Word: scions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, 77, redoubtable financier, distinguished diplomat, enterprising publisher and the epitome of a U.S. patrician; of congestive heart failure; in Manhasset, N.Y. The Groton-and Yale-educated scion of one of America's wealthiest and most distinguished families. Whitney used his entrepreneurial skills in a grand array of profitable ventures. In the 1930s he astutely backed Gone With the Wind and the long-running Broadway hit Life with Father. He also made early investments in Minute Maid orange juice, Pan American World Airways and several radio and TV stations. A moderate Republican, he was named...
...milk. The story was picked up by TV news and papers across the country. The New York Times's front-page headline: U.S. ACTS TO SHRINK SCHOOL LUNCH SIZE IN ECONOMY MOVE. The merits of the controversy got covered with catsup. Scoffed Pennsylvania Republican Senator John Heinz, a scion of the catsup-making family: "This is one of the most ridiculous regulations I ever heard of." The final straw came when Senate Democrats, including Minority Leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia, South Carolina's Ernest Hollings and Patrick Leahy of Vermont, were photographed staring with distaste...
PIERS ANTHONY WEYMOUTH, also known as Lord Wedgwood, the 26-year-old scion of the English china dynasty, is touring America. He comes not to take "snaps" of the Grand Canyon or the skyline of New York, he comes to promote trade and commerce in the 'colonies,' a 200-year-old tradition in his family. One of Wedgwood's former local customers had been Benjamin Franklin; in Pier's few more...
...clear that the voters blamed Manley for the country's economic morass. During his eight years as Prime Minister, the handsome, magnetic Manley, 55, scion of the island's most prominent political family, had made some significant contributions to Jamaica: a minimum wage, free education, equal pay for women, newly built health centers and 40,000 units of low-income housing. But endemic poverty remained, and critics charged his administration with woeful mismanagement. His warm abrazo for Fidel Castro frightened the middle class as well as foreign investors. Soon Jamaica found itself with a severe brain drain...
...quintessential Southern gentleman: scion of a moneyed North Carolina family, graduate of Princeton University ('41) and Harvard Law School ('49), and recipient of a Bronze Star for bravery as a lieutenant aboard a destroyer at Okinawa during World War II. Now 61, Richardson Preyer entered Congress in 1969 and quickly earned a reputation on both sides of the aisle as a soft-spoken legislator of uncompromising integrity, high talent and moderate views. Democratic Congressman Morris Udall of Arizona described him as "one of the most decent and intelligent gentlemen in this or any other legislative body." Two years...