Word: heiresses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Love, with its easy exchange of drugs and sex in Haight-Ashbury. Then in 1973 came the racially motivated Zebra killings; Agnos, who was seriously wounded after leaving a neighborhood political meeting, was one of the gunman's 18 randomly chosen victims. Next followed the kidnaping of Newspaper Heiress Patty Hearst and the 1978 mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana, to which Jim Jones had moved his cult followers from a "people's temple" in the center of San Francisco...
Nitze has devoted much of his life to public service in part because he could afford to. He came from a well-to-do family, and his wife of 54 1/2 years, Phyllis, who died in June, was an heiress of the Standard Oil fortune. In addition to having a few silver spoons come his way, he had something of a Midas touch. He was a wunderkind of the investment-banking world in the 1930s -- "the last man hired on Wall Street before the Crash," he says with a wry smile -- and later helped develop the Aspen, Colo., resort where...
...Betty (Heather Gunn) says, "you can't believe everything you hear," and most of the people Charlie (Jon Blackstone) meets have something to hide. Meat-packing heiress Catherine Simms (Brodie Fisher), overzealous building inspector Owen Musser (Steve Lyne), and even the saintly Reverend David Lee (Jon Finks), Catherine's fiance, reveal their secrets in his presence, thinking he won't understand...
...elope with him to Scotland, where no parental consent was needed after the age of 18. Don Antenor chased the fugitives to Edinburgh and hired detectives to find them. By now reporters were also in hot pursuit of the couple they continually referred to as the playboy and the heiress. The fugitives hid in various friends' houses for the < three weeks required to establish Scottish residence, then got married. Don Antenor went to court to have the marriage annulled, but lost. "They can expect no financial assistance from me," said Don Antenor as he disinherited his defiant daughter...
...rest of the book is pure torture. When Mgungu's heiress, Maria Fishburn, blows him off after their wedding--"Why don't we wait until we take our honeymoon?" she says--the cannibal thinks to himself, "I presumed this was the general custom in the United States, or at least in Manhattan." And then he gets into a Rolls Royce and goes to a strip show...