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...well called Los Barrosos No. 2 suddenly blew in and began spouting crude at the rate of 100,000 bbl. a day. In the rush that followed, oil companies paid millions of dollars for choice concessions. Providing services and equipment to the oil industry made a thin upper crust gorgeously rich, but scarcely benefited such middle-class families as the Betancourts. Rómulo went to work as a bill collector for a wholesale tobacco firm, played sand-lot soccer (right forward), entered the law school of Caracas' Central University...
...Rita Hayworth, and he represented innumerable Swiss and foreign companies in Geneva's tightly controlled banking community. Distinguished-looking and wealthy, Pierre Jaccoud lived on the patrician Rue de Monnetier, had a loving wife and three children. He was so much a part of Geneva's upper crust that it was unlikely he would even be acquainted with a family as humble as the Zumbachs...
...geophysicists, the ocean trenches are some of the most interesting places on earth. A well-supported theory holds that the trenches are places where the earth's crust is being sucked slowly into the depths by currents in the plastic inner material. When Trieste has penetrated the Marianas Trench and studied its rugged bottom, her reports may explain the origin not only of the earth's ocean deeps but also of its mountains...
...another example of the kind of polish she had in mind, Anne Ford last week gave a big, elegant coming-out party for her Daughter Charlotte at suburban Grosse Pointe Farms' upper-crust Country Club of Detroit, which was fitted out for the occasion with an 18th century French motif by Paris Designer Jacques Frank. It cost something over $250,000 to entertain the 1,270 guests who ate up, among other things, 5,000 finger sandwiches, 2,160 scrambled eggs, 100 Ibs. of corned beef hash, drank 480 bottles of Cuvée Dom Perignon...
...will be extensively redecorated, just for the evening, to provide proper dash and elegance for a ball whose theme will be 18th century French. Occasion: the coming-out of their daughter, Debutante Charlotte Ford, 18. The guest roster is a Who's-Really-Who of U.S. business, upper-crust society and showfolk, with a suitable seasoning of European nobility...