Word: well-to-do
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Broil in Private. In all the cement pouring din, what of the well-to-do few who once had huge hunks of the Caribbean to themselves? They are still there, but in a new kind of resort away from the crowds where they can crawl off to their own undisturbed beach and broil in private peace. They frequently join in cooperatives, started either by a millionaire real estate developer or by a group of friends who pool their money for property on which to build a cottage colony. And since the co-ops are strictly screened, the members...
...other and to the boss by blood or marriage) Hoxha speaks from a podium decorated with a plaster bust of himself. Like his country, Hoxha is full of surprises. Instead of being a rough, tough mountain chieftain, he is a former schoolteacher and was the pampered son of a well-to-do Moslem merchant. Though he has the mentality of a brigand, his manners are those of a cultivated bourgeois and reflect his education at universities in France and Belgium...
...what? In the papers, for one thing. There is many a well-to-do matron who will gladly contribute as much as $10,000 to a charity (plus a program ad for her husband's business) for the privilege of being on the ball committee. This entitles an eager beaveress to be photographed for the society pages with an established society leader at a fashionable restaurant, and may even lead to a mention in a gossip column. The earnest climber who accumulates enough of such credits, like an Eagle Scout with a sash of merit badges, obtains recognition among...
Born in January 1909 at Pantanaw in Burma's fertile Irrawaddy delta, U Thant comes from a cultured, well-to-do family of landowners. Oldest of four brothers, all of whom became prominent in Burmese government and business, he is married to the daughter of an eminent lawyer. They have a 22-year-old daughter, Aye Aye, and a son. Tin Maung ("Tinny"), 19, both taking sociology courses at Manhattan's Hunter College...
...Conservatives, although they have been in power for a decade, are still considered the party of the well-to-do. They neatly evaded the problem of class in the Election of 1959 by running on a platform of material prosperity--implying rather crassly that if everyone were well-to-do, everyone's antagonism would disappear. This line has, of course, lost much of its appeal since Selwyn Lloyd's austere economic reforms, and Mr. Macmillan (who has grown vaguer and vaguer in the last two years) was content at the Brighton conference to substitute for "prosperity" a few irritating cliches...