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Precise 15°/. The Chinese delegation, accompanied by two newsmen and 40 clerks, assistants, typists and chefs, moved into Manhattan in style. They rented chauffeur-driven Cadillacs to get around town (at $12 an hour) and took over the entire 72-room 14th floor of the Roosevelt Hotel-except for one room occupied for 25 years by an elderly widow who refused to move out. The midtown pad cost the People's Republic at least $2,160 per night. The hotel responded nimbly to every request from the Chinese. Color television sets and hot plates were added to every...
...Share Corp. Estimates of his fortune start at $70 million. He is completely debt free. "I've always operated with my own means, independent of banks," he says. Jahn travels constantly, spending six days a month in the U.S. For short trips he favors one of his five chauffeur-driven Mercedes-Benz 300s. For longer hops he uses one of his three aircraft. Once aloft, the millionaire ex-headwaiter, often in shirtsleeves and with blue eyes gleaming, serves sandwiches and coffee to his executives...
...tips in the art of gracefully demolishing a bull. Now it is pottery time, and 83 ceramic owls later, Picasso summons his chauffeur and picks up three virgins on the beach. They are deflowered during the siesta, and retire, twittering gratefully, to write their memoirs. Refreshed, the Maestro fills in the yawning hours before dinner with a dozen portraits. The omelette palpitates under his fork, unable to believe its luck. It, too, will be converted into a Picasso. A green, nocturnal silence reigns in the garden, broken only by the muffled clamor of Greek shipping millionaires stuffing $1,000 bills...
Social Swath. The Chinese are hardly unhappy about all the attention. Huang Hua is frequently seen around the capital, riding in his chauffeur-driven Mercedes or strolling across Ottawa's Parliament Hill. This week Huang sets out on a week's tour that will take him to all ten of Canada's provinces...
...rascal named Michael Cullen, who lies and steals as a matter of course. Still, he also manages to suggest that these are merely tactics of self-defense in a world ruled by criminals far worse than he. For example: Claud Moggerhanger, a vice lord who employs Michael as his chauffeur, and Jack Leningrad, who recruits Michael to the gold-smuggling ring that he operates from inside his iron lung. Of him Moggerhanger remarks, "I'll smash his lung to pieces and watch him die like a fish on his own floor...