Word: wealthiest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trying to sneak into the girls washroom just so they would scream and all the boys would giggle. Woody Allen has carried this comic style into adult movies with his film Everything You Always Wanted to Know etc. In response to the serious queries of Dr. David Reuben, our wealthiest sexologist. Allen offers witty poems, hyperbolic parodies, and clever asides that are irreverent, aside, and often very funny...
Slighted. The McGovernites have been curiously inattentive to some of their wealthiest potential backers. In California, Millionaire Max Palevsky, who has contributed $350,000 for the McGovern campaign so far, felt slighted that he was not named finance chairman. Some, like San Francisco Realtor Walter Shorenstein and Los Angeles Realtor Harold Willens, are cautiously waiting to see how McGovern's campaign shapes up before they commit their funds. Says Shorenstein: "Our system requires a growth economy. You have to have free enterprise and competition and a good business atmosphere. If we are going to inhibit opportunity with heavy taxes...
...served a five-year sentence after the war, he emerged from prison in 1950 and quietly began again. Within two decades he acquired control over more than 200 paper, steel, chemical and automobile companies, including 40% of Daimler-Benz. At his death, he was reputedly West Germany's wealthiest citizen...
Died. S. (for Stephen) Howard Young, 94, one of the world's wealthiest art dealers; in Manhattan. Born in Belle Center, Ohio, Young began selling prints throughout the Midwest while still a teen-ager and in three years accumulated $400,000. Wiped out by the panic of 1896, he started again by commissioning portraits of recently deceased rich people, then selling the paintings to the bereaved families. Later he began collecting paintings for wealthy clients, and finally established a hugely successful gallery in New York. His greatest coup was the discovery at an auction of the lost El Greco...
...presently stands the Harvard budget is simply a convenient device for obscuring the finances of the University. Without convincing, publicly-presented evidence, the Union refuses to accept the claim that an institution whose assets amount to more than one billion dollars--making Harvard one of America's 500 wealthiest corporations--can overcome its 'financial crisis' only at the expense of its students. Working with the few available figures, the Financial Research Committee of the Union has established some interesting facts which highlight the one-sided picture that the administration has offered concerning Harvard's 'poverty...