Word: three-year-old
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...self-made personality," she says. The product of a straight bourgeois background, she has propelled herself to the point where she is now the wife of a fashionable Roman architect and mother of a three-year-old boy ("An earthquake; he's so handsome"), can afford to collect shoes (70 pairs) and furs (14, including six mink), drive a Maserati and learn to fly. Best of all, having been discovered abroad, she finds herself big box office at home...
...race; at big Eastern tracks that costs $15 a day. The vet collects $10 or so to give the animal an aspirin, and the blacksmith charges $18.50 for a set of shoes. A man could be out of pocket $100,000 or more by Derby time for his three-year-old. He then pays $100 for the original nomination, $250 to pass the entry box, another $1,250 to start. The winner's purse: about...
...Chile a 1965 Chevrolet Impala runs $15,000; even a two-or three-year-old Chewy brings double the original price...
...less applies in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, and every diplomat - U.S. or otherwise - considers it part of the game to build up a nest egg by importing and reselling a car every two or three years. When he left his post last year, one ambassador put two cars on the market, one of them a Lincoln Continental; another departing embassy official unloaded a three-year-old Buick...
Compared to these shining lights of governmental stability, the three-year-old Harvard Council for Undergraduate Affairs seems a brief flicker. Yet astute observers of parliamentary history can learn much from its fall. Britain's institutions have endured because they once relied on the stable source of power in the society, the landowning nobility. If any government is to succeed here, it too must turn to the aristocracy for guidance and support. It must faithfully represent the interests of the College's hereditary nobility, the clubbies...