Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recalling his delight at seeing Manhattan's Lever House in 1952, the Yale-educated baron chose the U.S. firm of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, whose partner in charge of design, Gordon Bunshaft, revolutionized the appearance of American banks with his glass and aluminum structure for the Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co.'s Fifth Avenue branch twelve years ago. Today it is business as usual at the new Banque Lambert, but in an airy edifice of concrete and glass (see color pages) that Brussels Architect Jean Delhaye calls "perfectly equilibrated...
...houses being held as collateral, few vacationers are apt to tear their temporary homes apart. Explains Mrs. Jeannette Spensley, who traded her six-room Albuquerque home for three rooms in Torrance, Calif.: "There's a kind of adventurous spirit among those of us doing this. You put your trust in people, and they in you. It's the golden rule taking potluck, except you toss your house around...
...When Johnson became President, one of the first men he called to his side was Fortas. The new President consulted Fortas on appointments, departmental problems, national and international policy, and the creation of the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He worked out the complex trust to manage the Johnson family's Texas holdings during Lyndon's presidency...
Zorba the Greek will probably please most of the people who go to see it, and that is where the pity lies. Director Michael Cacoyannis has assembled a neat package of cinematic goodies wrapped in effective technique which appears fine until examined. But one should not trust the Greeks, especially when they bear gifts, and similarly one should not trust this film...
This is Le Carré's dark point, struck like a funeral bell on nearly every page of this book. Leiser is doomed. He descends the hill to foreordained failure in his mission, sensing that those whom he wants to trust will, if it comes to that, abandon him. He has all the significance of a pawn, played and sacrificed in a game that itself has no meaning...