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...Siegmund is intellectual and rather mysterious-the two have much in common. Both specialize in international finance, and both have shaken encrusted bankers by putting their trust in modern methods and young associates. And both are driven by a desire: restore all the past glory to a many-faceted clan, whose current members range from Berlin's Otto Warburg, a Nobel-prizewinning biochemist, to Connecticut's Economist-Author James Warburg (The West in Crisis...
...myth, like Santa Claus. The God myth is dying, with our energetic help. The myth was born in the minds of ignorant, superstitious Stone-Age men and has been exploited by ancient and modern witch doctors to the immense profit of the priest clan. The modern preacher finds the glorification of his imaginary god less profitable than support of civil rights and social reforms; hence his slogan, "God is dead...
...year-old Spazierengehen Stiftung (Strolling Foundation) has so far awarded 34,430 gold, silver and bronze shoe-shaped medals to enthusiastic strollers who have walked respectively 300, 200, and 100 hours in a single year. Presided over by, of all people, Georg von Opel of the car clan, the Strolling Foundation has even coined a slogan for motorists: "Get out and walk...
...skiing a few times before. It certainly doesn't help to have your five-year-old boy riding along behind on the shoulders of your ski instructor and yelling: "Watch out, you might fall! Watch out, you might fall!" Still, Jacqueline Kennedy stood up very well during the clan's winter ski outing, and it may not be too long before she starts riding up to the expert slopes with Bobby and Ethel. John-John was doing fine at lessons with his sister Caroline on the beginners' run, although he much preferred just sliding down...
...Ford clan turned up in strength, and the whole thing could not have been more urbane. Mother Anne Mc Donnell Ford arrived on the arm of her current escort, Ted Bassett, a kind of all-purpose man about town who posed for photographers between Christina and Henry. Uzielli's parents, also divorced, were there too. Mama was wearing a Balenciaga, and Papa, who works with Gianni at stockbroking, was squiring his second wife. At evening's close, as the last of the Piper Heidsieck '59 bubbled away, Henry pronounced himself well pleased. "Great party, eh?" he inquired...