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...success at turning abandoned wells into profitable operations, along with his initiative hi developing new fields in locales from Louisiana to Saudi Arabia, once ranked him with independent Oil Tycoons J. Paul Getty and H.L. Hunt; of a heart ailment; in Houston. An unpretentious man who never had a chauffeur (but who occasionally donned a chauffeur's cap to drive his wife around in a limousine), "Big John" at times was estimated to be worth more than $200 million, but in 1970 filed two bankruptcy petitions. Out of that period of reorganization emerged a Houston-based oil firm, John...
...Manhattan's Central Park, Moses believed in the democratizing effect of recreation. His goal was not simply to preserve beauty or connect neighborhoods, but to change the way the common man lived. His vision, alas, was sometimes misguided. A champion of the automobile (though he always had a chauffeur and never learned to drive), Moses hated mass transit. He designed parkways on Long Island with overpasses too low to allow buses. He also favored big, sterile public housing towers of a kind now associated with alienation and crime...
Some people find it a supreme pleasure to ride in a limousine, but Diana Ross, 37, prefers self-propulsion. In midtown Manhattan, where she is recording a new album, Ross likes to ease on down the road on custom-made roller skates, while her chauffeur-driven black Mercedes trails her. Wired for music, Ross glides along to her album, The Boss, of a couple of years ago. She notes: "It's great dance music." But what about New York's perilous potholes? She admits that sometimes she does more rockin' than rollin', but the lady seldom...
...There 1 was, with parents in evening clothes, in a fabulous chauffeur-driven carriage of gold. That was all a star-bunded fanatic needed...
...bottle again, right up until the decidely happy ending. The saved-by-the-bell wedding ending recalls The Graduate, except this is unequivocably happy. The Graduate rejected the Establishment, Arthur embraces it. Ban and Elaine rode off in a public bus, Arthur and Linda scoot off in a chauffeur-driven Rolls, gleefully content with their $700 million nest...