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>> Her father’s fortune came from building International Harvester, the maker of agricultural and construction machinery.

• valicord 2y ago
  That's paragraph 10 of the article, the question was about the headline.
  • mikestew 2y ago
    Well, then, to answer your original question: “the point is” that one might assume that if you cared that much, you’d read TFA. Which apparently is sometimes a baseless assumption.
    • valicord 2y ago
      I'm not asking what her parents did (which is indeed explained in the article), I'm asking "why did the author bother to put word 'heiress' in the headline when it doesn't tell the reader any additional information when used by itself". If the headline read " The daughter at Harvard ..." surely you'd wonder why they used the word "daughter" there, right? "Heiress" without any qualifiers means more or less the same thing, so it's natural to be surprised by the word choice.