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Reuss himself might stand to lose from higher taxes on the rich. As the scion of a Milwaukee banking family, he owns $183,000 worth of stock in the city's Marshall & Ilsley Bank. He has never been active in banking, however; after graduating from Harvard Law School in 1936, he enlisted in the Army as a private, won a Bronze Star in the crossing of the Rhine and returned to Milwaukee to enter law and politics. In McCarthy-era Wisconsin, he lost his first three major races (for Milwaukee mayor, state attorney general and the U.S. Senate) before...
Died. Nubar Gulbenkian, 75, eccentric scion of oil-rich Calouste Gulbenkian (see BUSINESS...
...inaugural speech was the supreme moment in the career of a cunning and able politician who seems to inspire either unqualified adulation or fierce contempt. The scion of a wealthy landowning family and a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and Oxford University, Bhutto in recent years has become a convinced socialist who has vowed to turn his country into a "people's democracy." As Pakistan's Foreign Minister from 1963 to 1966 under Yahya's predecessor, Mohammed Ayub Khan, Bhutto was the chief architect of his country's friendly policy toward China...
...late J.P. Marquand had been crossed with Graham Greene, The Professor's Daughter might well have been the literary result. Here Read has zeroed in on another moral elitist, American style. Henry Rutledge is a double aristocrat-a professor at Harvard and the scion of an old Yankee family. The sort of New Deal liberal who receives $3,500,000 from his parents as a little wedding gift, Henry has been an effortless and graceful overachiever. All that can be obtained by caste, money, good looks, charm and intelligence belongs to him. His home is decorated with originals...
...movie was produced, written and directed by Melvin Van Peebles, who also stars as Sweetback, the outraged and outrageous hero. The scion of a Los Angeles whorehouse, Sweetback graduates to an obvious profession: pimping. He "goes bad" while watching two white policemen cudgel a black youth wrongly accused of inciting riot. Sweetback reacts by mashing the cops' skulls with their own handcuffs. He then sets off on a ghetto version of the traditional Wild West chase. He fights and fornicates, leaving behind a trail of bodies in various stages of disrepair. When cornered by two cops, Sweetback responds with...