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...Paul's Macalester College is a Presbyterian-linked liberal arts school with 1,700 students, mostly from Minnesota. It has some pleasant distinctions: a 22-member bagpipe band in Macalester clan kilts, a 40-acre campus along swank Summit Avenue, where Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald grew up. But none of this explains the school's greatest claim to fame. In number of National Merit Scholars, a status symbol among U.S. colleges, little Macalester is year after year among the top ten campuses in the nation...
Only 35 to Baker's 61, L.B. (for Lewis Bergman) Maytag Jr. is a lean, even-tempered member of the washing-machine clan. But except for sizable stock holdings, Colorado-raised Bud Maytag long ago spun off all interest in the family firm (now run by his cousin...
...crisis develops as, one by one, the members of this sick little clan discharge their tensions into a fragile lightning rod, a sensitive young tutor (Maximilian Schell), who longs almost pathetically to please his "new family." In return, the man of the house ignores him brutally, the son despises him vocally, the mother starts shamelessly breathing down his neck. In the end, they drive him to attempt suicide, and in his glassy eyes they see the death they have been living...
...time since Luther. But within the Kirk there are hard feelings. The honorary treasurer of the Kirk of St. Andrews resigned his post in protest. When Dr. Craig turned up at St. Andrews to preach the centenary service, he felt it necessary to soothe the fundamentalists of his clan...
...well-detailed account of the seven-generation progress of Europe's fabulous banking clan, of whom it might now be said that royalty rivals the Rothschilds...