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Nepotism, Inc. Guy heads a versatile clan of 75 modern-day Rothschilds who are spreading their talents into finance, industry, arts, science—or are being primed for the future. The job of expanding the family fortunes centers on eight of them. Four—Guy and three of his second cousins—are in the athletic, artistic and imaginative French branch. Four others—generally quieter and younger than their French relatives —are partners in the important but less wealthy British branch. Though separated by the Channel, the two branches keep in close touch through Telex communications, meet each other at board meetings of companies in which both have substantial interests. The leaders:
> Alain de Rothschild, 53, a 25% owner of the French bank, is a yachtsman, a conservative pillar of Right Bank society and president of the Paris Jewish Community. He also is the most active of the family in philanthropies.
> Elie de Rothschild, 46, also a 25% partner, directs the French bank's ventures in tourism, supervises the money-making Chateau Lafite vineyards (which Guy and his three French cousins own) and is the family's foremost man-about-town—a polo player and earthy wit in four languages.
> Edmond de Rothschild, 37, probably the richest French Rothschild, does not work in the bank but invests his fortune separately. From his late father Maurice, who had an eye for women as well as comely investments, he inherited a sum estimated at from $50 million to $500 million. Edmond, a gay blade himself, is married to sometime Cinema Starlet Nadine Tallier.
> Edmund de Rothschild, 47, the plump and mustached senior partner in the London bank, is also one of Europe's most accomplished gardeners, invests his weekends tending his rare orchids and rhododendrons in 30 hothouses at his Exbury estate near Southampton.
> Leopold de Rothschild, 36, Edmund's brother and partner, is an expert pianist and made a flurry in the tabloids in the late 1940s, when he spent two years in the British service as the "wealthiest able seaman in the navy."
> Evelyn de Rothschild, 32, Edmund's lively cousin and another British partner, plays polo against Prince Philip, and is one of Britain's most eligible bachelors.
> Jacob Rothschild, also a partner and Edmund's cousin, is, at 27, the youngest Rothschild banker and a highly regarded forerunner of an up-and-coming generation.