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Michiko was sent to Tokyo's Sacred Heart School, where the names of the girls read like a roll call of Japan's wealthiest families, instead of to the Gakushuin (Peers' School), which is reserved mainly for the descendants of the blue-blooded kazoku families. Sacred Heart was a congenial place, long on over-politeness. Comments a Sacred Heart graduate: "The aim was to shape us all into spotless and expensive pieces of jewelry, and Michiko got the same treatment as the rest." Though the school was Roman Catholic, Michiko remained a Buddhist...
...British and the Egyptians finally settled their accounts on the 1956 Suez war. For six weeks they had haggled over 700 acres of land near Alexandria owned by Joseph Smouha, 83-year-old Iraqi-born Jew known as the wealthiest British subject in Egypt (TIME. March 2). Solution of the Smouhaha. as the British called it: the Egyptians would give him back the race track, golf course and other built-up property that they had seized from him after the British landings. But they would keep the surrounding farm land which, for tax purposes, he had valued unusually...
...ceremonial fuss over the election of a new Pope? I suppose it is because his position as president of the oldest existing corporation is regarded by millions of people as the world's biggest job. The Roman Catholic Church is said to be the wealthiest firm with one exception-the Coca-Cola Co.; then why not work up a similar degree of excitement over the appointment of a new president for that corporation or Standard Oil of New Jersey...
...Last, Maturity. Though Eliot is probably the wealthiest poet alive (The Cocktail Party netted the lyrical sum of $1,000,000), he still reports for his thrice-weekly chores as a partner of the publishing house of Faber & Faber, where he is renowned as the firm's best jacket-blurb writer. There, last week, in his picture-lined office, he made a remarkable confession: "I'm just beginning to grow up, to get maturity. In the last few years. everything I'd done up to 60 or so has seemed very childish." Reminded of a youthfully immature...
...importance of the success of the Program to all colleges in the United States. This argument ranks high on the list of "selling points" which alumni workers are given before they go out to solicit funds. The truth of it is readily apparent: as soon as Harvard, the wealthiest (in terms of endowment) college in the country, announced its drive, Yale, M.I.T., Brown, and a number of other schools followed suit with ambitious money-raising programs of their...