Word: derrick
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...audacious entrepreneurs who built conglomerate empires from scratch in the 1960s, James Derrick Slater endured the longest. Americans like James Ling (Ling-Temco-Vought), Bernie Cornfeld (Investors Overseas Services) and John King (King Resources) saw their corporate houses of cards collapse around them, but England's merger lord and his mammoth Slater, Walker Securities Ltd. seemed to grow more prosperous every year. Now Slater, 46, has also had his comeuppance, His company's role in alleged fiscal improprieties is under investigation in Hong Kong and Singapore; he has resigned as chairman of Slater, Walker and gone into seclusion...
...idle. She does freelance public relations work, and helps her husband Baron Arnaud de Rosnay, 29, known as the Baroncito, promote backgammon in Europe. Recently, the Rosnays spent some time in the Middle East. Arnaud has devised an oil game, Monopoly style, called Petropolis ($790 for silver-plated derricks and gold-plated platforms in a green morocco case). Isabel fell in love with Saudi Arabia: "Women may not be visible, but they are taken care of. Men do all the heavy things. There's none of that 'Carry your own bags, lady.' " Arnaud has probably never asked...
...Derrick A. Bell Jr, professor of Law and the Law School's only black professor, said Friday he may not return to the Law School after his leave of absence next year...
...Clash of Hawks by Robert Charles (Pinnacle; $1.25) is memorable for its second sentence: "The 200-foot high derrick was a black, latticed steel phallus raping the hot, virginal blue...
...which has in recent years acquired expertise in deep-sea rescue vessels, developed an innovative design. The main ship-a hefty 36,000-tonner that would be 618 ft. in length and 115.5 ft. in beam-would serve as a floating, highly stable platform. Amidships would stand a high derrick that would pass piping directly through a well, or "moon pool," in the ship's hull, which could be opened or closed with a sliding panel. The ship's companion was to be a huge submersible barge roughly the size of a football field, which would be covered...