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...camera, Natalie became a well publicized Hollywood playgirl. She had a large fling with Nicky Hilton, after Liz Taylor divorced him. She danced and dallied with Jimmy Dean, was often observed on the jump seat of Elvis Presley's motorcycle, and married Wagner in a ceremony that was decorous enough to make some pressagents think it was for real...
...wheeler-dealers, few have ever outdealt Roy Marie Hofheinz, 49, smooth-talking ex-mayor of Houston, who operates in oil, radio (Corpus Christi), TV (Houston), real estate and sports. Teaming up with Oilman R. E. ("Bob") Smith, Hofheinz recently plunked down $4,940,000 to buy from Hilton Hotels Corp. 494 acres of undeveloped land near downtown Houston. No sooner had they taken title than Hofheinz and Smith gave 29½ of their new acres to the state for a throughway right of way, agreed to sell 180 acres to the county at cost to complete land acquisition...
...Odlum, longtime boss of Atlas Corp., retired last year at 68 to his Indio, Calif., ranch, the smart money bet that it would not last. Odlum, the argument ran, was constitutionally incapable of slowing down after 37 years of buying, revitalizing, and selling off such companies as Paramount Pictures, Hilton Hotels, Greyhound Corp., Bonwit Teller and Atlantic Refining. Last week, after 16 months of restless ease, Odlum proved the smart money right, swung back into action as chairman of Salt Lake City's Federal Resources Corp. Federal's assets are a paltry (for Odlum) $6.6 million in beryllium...
...rooms for tourists on the island, though promoters are doing their best to put up 200 more before the big tide washes in this summer. Most popular place is the Hotel Tahiti (18 suites with bath, $20 a day, without meals), and it is plainly not yet the Tahiti Hilton. Most hotels feature an awesome variety of roaches, flies and hairy spiders...
...engineer Ray built his first bridge, then he built the first vehicular tunnel in Cuba. After that he was Project Manager for the Havana Hilton Hotel. "The first job cost a million dollars; the tunnel was $6 1/2 million job; the Hilton project was $20 million. I say this so you see the progress...