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Personal wealth triumphed over political savvy last night as Republican Rep. H. John Heinz III, scion of the Heinz pickle and catsup fortune, edged Democratic Rep. Bill Green in Pennsylvania's Senate race...
President Bok, who serves on the Corporation ex officio, is the scion of the Curtis publishing fortune. George Putnam, the treasurer, comes from an ancient New England banking family and holds directorships in banks, mutual funds and insurance companies. Hugh Calkins, a Cleveland corporate lawyer, is a director of the Brown & Sharp manufacturing company and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. (The CFR is an organization of important businessmen, university faculty and former government officials, and has great influence in the formulation of U.S. foreign policy. If the first 82 names on a list proposed by President...
HARRY CROSBY, scion of a proper Boston family, had already been living a mad and extravagant life for some years when he sent this cable to his irate father. Evidently, it was beginning to pale; just a few moments after he sent the cable, Crosby, a professional eccentric and would-be poet, discontinued his calculatedly scandalous life in favor of a mad and extravagant death. A compulsive seeker after new sensations, Crosby had already exhausted almost everything else in the way of the exotic, the extreme and the self-consciously decadent when he was found in 1929 in a friend...
...which resources are allocated according to the principles of equality and justice. These may be naive dreams, but many people are quietly shaping their lives around them, disdaining standard goals to concentrate on changing their own values and those of individuals around them. But Moynihan can see only the scion of an upper-class family screaming through a bullhorn at a University Hall administrator, labeling that official a "running dog of imperialism...
...scion of petty aristocrats on Sardinia whose roots go back to that island's Spanish past, Berlinguer, 54, has been Secretary of the P.C.I, since 1972. He has created a new image for the West's biggest Communist Party-that of hardworking, button-down Communists who in no way represent a revolutionary threat to bourgeois voters. The basic election issue is whether the voters will accept this new respectable image. Ironically, the once ideologically passionate Communists are campaigning in the name of efficiency and good government, while the Christian Democrats (at least to some extent the party...