Word: scions
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...Hong Kong, where business holds the real power, Tung, 59, has the proper pedigree. C.H., as he is widely known, is the scion of a major Asian shipping dynasty, and was educated at Britain's University of Liverpool and schooled in business on the job in the U.S. He's on a first-name basis with the Asia-Pacific region's political and business leaders, as well as many of those in the U.S., where he co-chairs the U.S.-Hong Kong Economic Cooperation Committee with former U.S. Federal Reserve Board chairman Paul Volcker. More important, his family bridges...
...Another scion of the Douglas clan is in hot water. A car driven by Cameron Douglas, 17, Michael and Diandra's son, got into an accident with a Secret Service agent's car. The agent was then dragged by the teen's car when he reached in to grab the keys. "Anybody who's a parent knows how difficult and painful [this] is," said a family statement...
...scion of Corning Glass and one of the wealthiest members of Congress, Houghton brings a decidedly businesslike mien--and a moderate Republican voice--to Capitol Hill. As a member of the influential Ways and Means Committee, he helped craft a six-year balanced-budget plan. But he's not an advocate of wholesale cuts, and fought to save the National Endowment for the Arts and funding for public television...
...early '60s will be remembered as a moment when meritocracy and patrician elitism enjoyed a celebrated cohabitation, the rise and then fall of which Bundy came to symbolize. The scion of a foreign policy establishment whose members unabashedly viewed America's leadership role (and their own) as a sacred destiny, Bundy became the epitome of the well-intentioned arrogance that David Halberstam grandly captured in The Best and the Brightest...
...Nelson Rockefeller ran for Governor. To prove that this scion of privilege was a regular Joe, Rockefeller proceeded to eat his way through the tribes of New York. There he was, his picture in the paper day after day with a hot dog, a knish, a slice of pizza, an egg roll. He won--and political tradition turned into a required ritual...