Word: tycooning
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...search of Lebensraum with a view, affluent West Germans in the past few years have swarmed across Europe on the biggest Iand-buying spree in their history. Germans have become Europe's heaviest buyers of vacation homes in virtually every bracket, ranging from a department store tycoon's $1,000,000 pleasure dome on Cap d'Antibes to $1,500 cottages on the Mediterranean that are advertised as "your own castle in Spain." Though the stock market and their economy have leveled off, West German entrepreneurs are going ahead with plans to build new homes and hotels...
Whatever happens in later life to a girl from upper New York State who specializes in playing sexy, empty-headed redheads? She becomes a tycoon...
...this might seem to be gilding the lily, for Stanford was born rich in 1885, when Railroad Tycoon Leland Stanford launched it with the world's then biggest endowment-$21 million and 8,800 acres 30 miles south of San Francisco. Unhappily, wealth bred sloth at Stanford. It let its lavish Neo-Romanesque premises molder. Deluged with veterans after World War II, it was soon in serious trouble...
Faculty Raiding. What has largely saved Stanford is its fifth president: J. E. Wallace Sterling, 56, a Canadian-born historian who looks like a heavyweight Jimmy Durante, sounds like Edward R. Murrow and thinks like Tycoon Stanford. The son of a United Church of Canada minister, Sterling worked his way through the University of Toronto pitching hay and peddling furniture polish. He got his doctorate at Stanford in 1938, went on to a distinguished teaching career at Caltech, where he also doubled as a CBS news analyst. He was director of the Huntington Library in 1949 when Stanford found...
Phaedra. Melina Mercouri purrs, snarls and shrieks in the title role of this modern-day version of an old Greek myth. Raf Vallone, as her ship-tycoon husband, is healthily Hellenic in a role with obvious overtones of Onassisism. Only Tony Perkins, as Vallone's stepson over whom all the trouble brews, seems not quite believable. Director Jules Dassin has sought to bring off cinematic high tragedy in a contemporary setting...