Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY Marcus Nadler, Wall Street pulse taker, professor of finance. New York University LL.D...
...Hoovers, Sr. and Jr.; the Robert Wagners, Sr. and Jr. And then there are the families whose illustrious names mix business and politics-three generations of Rockefellers, from old Millionaire John D. Sr. to New York's Governor Nelson; the Kennedys, from Joseph P. back in his 1935 Wall Street-regulating days to Jack and Bobby in 1960; the Edisons, Inventor Thomas A. and his New Jersey Governor son, Charles. In strictly business dynasties, the record is held by the Fords, who altogether have provided six TIME covers...
...colored caïques in the harbor. The Greek government cut Delos, the island where Apollo was born, off from the outside world for a day, so that Jackie could enjoy its rubbled splendors alone. At Mykonos, an island with a population of 5,000 and 333 churches, every wall in the capital city, and even the cobblestoned streets, had been given a fresh coat of whitewash. In a tavern in Hydra, Jackie enthusiastically joined a group of natives dancing the Kalamatianos...
...Tiago lives in a drafty, 200-year-old palace of masonry and wood with huge oak doors and walls four feet thick, "to keep out the Protestants." It boasts "a complete, live collection of every known tropical insect." On the office wall he keeps a picture of a pre-eminent Catholic churchman whom he calls "Johnny." He admits that he lives more like a hermit than a bishop. He has no servants, eats lunch out with priests or nuns, and for dinner has only a bowl of oatmeal-followed sometimes by a cigar and a glass of sherry...
...inscription facing Massachusetts Avenue says, "Enter To Grow in Wisdom." And at the same gate, as you leave the Yard: "Depart To Serve Better Thy Country and Mankind." In the Yard, grow in wisdom: outside, serve mankind. And at Radcliffe there is talk of surrounding the quadrangle with a wall to buttress an unconfident identity. There will be a gate, and a similar inscription...