Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...While Shapp is a wispy, almost Chaplinesque figure, Shafer, son of a Protestant minister, is a craggy-faced, sandy-haired, 6-ft. 2-in. ex-athlete who won nine letters at Allegheny College to go with his Phi Beta Kappa key. Lawyer Shafer is as taciturn as Tycoon Shapp is talkative. Shafer "comes on like Mount Rushmore," as one Pennsylvanian puts it, "and is about as animated...
...polls, but the undecided vote is extraordinarily large-one poll puts it as high as 45% . One reason for the indecision is that though many voters once thought of Shapp as the David-however well armed-who overturned the Democratic Goliath, they now question whether the open-handed electronics tycoon is qualified to take over the state government. Cleveland-born Shapp has not been helped by his bray that "I know more about Pennsylvania than any other one man in the state." Neither Governor Scranton, whose family has been prominent in the state for four generations, nor his Lieutenant Governor...
...cries a lot but wears her teardrops like costume jewelry. Produced on cue, the drops are merely decorative, unrelated to any real passions or real truths about the plight of a 30-year-old spinster who has a sneaking fondness for bright balloons, babies and a big business tycoon. Abristle with private enterprise, Tycoon Jason Robards has filled an open date on his calendar by installing Jane in a company-owned apartment, where he can write her off as a tax loss and drop over once every week to compound his interest. Then Dean Jones stumbles onto the scene...
...Statesman's Game is a glum and pretentious fantasy written in humorless prose about Rupert Royce, a British shipping tycoon who has fallen in love with the Soviet Union and shows signs of a second love affair with Red China...
...Established in 1918 by the late Mrs. Stephen V. Harkness, widow of the oil tycoon. Most of its grants, which have totaled as much as $7,000,000 a year, are given for medical education and community health...