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Long Legs. Tall, blonde and on the fringes of the Social Register, Nancy, the daughter of a well-to-do White Plains, N.Y., lawyer, completed her education at Harvard. Her teacher: Professor Kissinger, who was also Rockefeller's foreign policy adviser. On his recommendation, Nancy went to work in 1964 as Kissinger's researcher on a Rockefeller task force and, fascinated by foreign affairs, stayed on with the Rockefeller Brothers Fund after Henry was summoned to Washington, and now holds his old job. Her regular reading includes the Times of London and the Economist, and she has been...
...efforts of Salem Village--an extension of Salem peopled mainly by farmers who led their lives in time-honored ways--to win independence from an increasingly maritime and commercial Salem Town. The two authors interpret the support given both Parris and the witch trials by the Village's well-to-do but socially immobile farmers as an expression of deep-seated, complex anxieties provoked by the increasingly individualistic and commercialistic outlook of the townspeople who had hired Parris. Traditional patterns of order and hierarchy throughout New England were giving way to what would become 18th century capitalism, and Boyer...
...bass), and the property includes a swimming pool and a barbecue pit big enough to broil a hippo. Future owners have access to the 55-horse stable, the 20 miles of bridle paths, trap-and skeet-shooting facilities of Smoke Rise-a private, walled and guarded community for the well-to-do located some 25 miles from Manhattan...
...textbooks on imperialism, Cuba would have been a textbook case. Cuba's main industry was always sugar production, and whoever controls Cuba's sugar has a large measure of control over most Cubans' earnings, the Cuban government--traditionally a government of the educated and well-to-do--and most Cubans' lives. In the 20th century, more and more Cuban sugar mills were bought by Americans, protected by occasional U.S. military intervention, and Cuban owners of small and inefficient mills were forced out of business. Large mill owners--many American--came to have a major influence on Cuban politics. Since these...
...Chile had tasted self-government, in the places where they worked as well as the Senate House, and the generals meant to teach them that self-government is for those who leave the rich alone, that democracy does not include sovereignty over the privileged, that freedom is for the well-to-do and in revolutionary times not even for them...