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...Three other boys stood out. Neil had irrepressible high spirits and a budding wanderlust. If he couldn't be an astronaut, he said, "I'm going to take people to the country, and sometimes to the seaside." Bruce, an angelic blond boy with a solemn demeanor, came from a well-to-do family but, having been exiled to a boarding school in Surrey, radiated loneliness and idealism. "My heart's desire," he said soulfully, "is to see my daddy." His father was in Rhodesia, which may have had something to do with his stated ambition to go to Africa...
...Everything your parents wouldn't let you do as a kid," a journalist colleague who had bought a couple of bags of crackers enthused. I joined him and another friend to add to the organized chaos on the street outside his apartment in a well-to-do Delhi suburb. Neighbors on both sides were already well into detonation mode. A couple of kids stood in the next driveway lighting a series of little "bombs" and throwing them out into the road where they would sit for a second and then burst open with a cracking bang. No light, no pretty...
...adjusted gross income of more than $2.9 million for 2005. His advisers estimate that Lamont and his wife have a combined total wealth of around $200 million, according to The New York Times, about 10 percent of which comes from family inheritance.“His family is fairly well-to-do, but they kept him grounded in reality,” Edward N. Bothfeld ’76, Lamont’s roommate in Lowell House for three years, said of his friend. “If you were out for pizza and beer, he wouldn?...
...family is fairly well-to-do, but they kept him grounded in reality,” Edward N. Bothfeld ’76, Lamont’s roommate in Lowell House for three years, said of his friend. “If you were out for pizza and beer, he wouldn’t pick up the tab. Ned was always very careful with his money...
...visiting revolutionary Cuba with a group of young "internationalists"; I was green and wanted to change the world. Fidel was the one that I wanted to see. First I met Vilma Espn, who had joined the revolution before marrying Ral. That she was from a well-to-do family and had thrown away everything for the cause made her a dashing character in my eyes. She was then and remains today head of Cuba's Women's Federation. People who knew Ral at the time of the revolution speak of him as hotheaded and daredevilish. He wore his beret...