Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Christopher, 58, a Greek-born, self-made dairy tycoon, is as nubbly as Reagan is smooth. He points proudly to his distinguished mayoral record, seeks to widen his liberal-Republican base by supporting such conservative causes as fiscal integrity and increased support for local police. Most important, he asserts, he is the only Republican with sufficiently broad support to win in November; recent polls, his aides note, show him beating Brown by a margin of 15%, whereas a Reagan-Brown battle would be a dead heat. The same polls, however, show Christopher trailing Reagan in the primary race, and most...
...goal: "To stand sponsor especially for the lonely artist in quest of beauty, independent of all cliques and movements." Art, he felt, was to be shared as he had experienced it best, in "an intimate, attractive atmosphere that we associate with a beautiful home." Grandson of a Pittsburgh steel tycoon and independently wealthy, Phillips, after Yale ('08), turned to art. One of his initial loves was Daumier. He bought the French caricaturist's Three Lawyers in 1919, the first of what became one of the choicest Daumier collections...
...people will have more power in shaping the answers than James Michael Roche, the president of General Motors. At 59, Jim Roche (rhymes with coach) is an unlikely tycoon. He is one of the few top American industrialists who never went to college and one of the few Roman Catholics to reach the top at G.M., where most of the hierarchs belong to the same Masonic lodge. He often goes to Mass before beginning his twelve-hour working day. In an industry driven by cool, computerized accountants and tough-talking salesmen, Roche is a folksy sort who never shows...
...opening statement, Lawyer Foreman depicted Mossler as such a "pirate" tycoon and depraved homosexual that "many times" more than 39 enemies would have been glad to take turns with the knife. But he did little to support the allegations. He had no need to. Arrested in Houston, Powers had been held incommunicado for several days by Texas Rangers. As a result, his only statement, which might have helped to incriminate him, was inadmissible at the Miami trial; the prosecution had to rely on indirect evidence. Witnesses placed Powers aboard a Miami-bound jet the afternoon of the murder...
...sophistical truth-aches is what ails The Condemned of Altona, at Lincoln Center's Beaumont Theater. Jean-Paul Sartre loves to play moral dentist to his time, and this play is his low-speed drill for making everyone cringe with guilt. An aged German shipping tycoon (George Coulouris) is dying of throat cancer, and he wants to get hand-on-the-Bible oaths of dynastic fealty from his daughter and two sons. Immured in an upstairs room, the elder son, Frantz, has not been seen by his father for 1 3 years, ever since World War II ended. Dressed...