Word: boys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...those corporate minds! "Far to the right" Cordiner informs us: "Civilization is moved forward by restless people, not by those who are satisfied by things as they are." G.E. better retire that boy. He's about to become a democrat, or even worse, a Democrat. Bet the board lets him off the hook when he explains that "civilization" only means...
...riddles of their deaths, the odd behavior of her elegant brother Jean, the mysterious comings and goings of the magnetic Dr. Lacour, the ex-paratrooper willing to murder for money, and the fetching blonde prostitute called Maïté. And, finally, there is the unloved and unloving adopted boy, Jean-Pierre Guillaume, around whom everything seems to revolve. At stake is one of the world's greatest fortunes...
...husband's fortune while she is alive but cannot bequeath it to anyone save a direct heir. The Guillaumes had been childless in nine years of marriage; yet now the rumor spread that, surprisingly, the beautiful Madame Guillaume was pregnant. Ten months later a baby boy appeared in her household. In 1941 she formally adopted the child, named him Jean-Pierre Guillaume, though he was often called Paulo. The records show only that he was born in Paris on Nov. 30, 1934, of unknown parents...
...wife, Walter promptly made over some $60 million in stock and art treasures. Perhaps because of his firm ideas about the inheritance of wealth, he did not adopt his wife's adopted son Paulo, though he gave the boy warmth and affection, in sharp contrast to Dominique's coldness and indifference...
...rebel F.L.N. underground in Algeria. Lacour, he declared, offered 5,000,000 francs ($119,000) to have Paulo rubbed out. Rayon agreed, and two weeks later both men met in the bar of the Aletti Hotel in Algiers, where Dr. Lacour pointed out Paulo. Rayon uneasily saw that the boy was wearing battle dress. He told Lacour that ''Algiers did not seem to be the ideal place to knock off a combat lieutenant of the paratroops." Lacour replied that Rayon could kill Paulo after he got out of the army...