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...impossible, if performed a second time, seems mere repetition. Thus millions of Americans were content to sleep through the Apollo 12's landing on the moon. They missed a diverting incident. The Apollo 12, with a price tag of roughly $375 million, represents a refinement of hundreds of years of scientific experiment and theory, the most intricate hardware of a technological civilization. Yet when the television camera fritzed out on the lunar surface, Astronaut Alan Bean had a moment of atavism. Like any other 20th century man confronted by the perversity of nonfunctioning machines, he whacked it with...
...Vegas was a gold mine for the Mafia from 1963 to 1966. In those years, the gangsters, including then Cleveland Mob Boss Frank Milano, "skimmed" some $12 million annually from the gaming rooms at many of the plastic palaces lining the Strip. The money was stolen from the casinos' profits with the aid of crooked owners and divided among leaders of the Cosa Nostra. In 1966, however, the FBI and state officials stepped in, and the skimming racket was dead. Several casinos were sold to new operators, including Billionaire Howard Hughes. The mob left town, but their departure...
...Kennedy's dreams of glory. "The measure of a man's success in life," said the founding father, "is not the money he's made. It's the kind of family he's raised." Joe Kennedy amassed a fortune of some $400 million (see box, p. 23), but he was also an astonishing success as a progenitor. Yet the patriarch's glory was brief. One day last week was the sixth anniversary of John Kennedy's assassination. Another would have been Robert Kennedy's 44th birthday. And on a third, the family...
...burgeoned almost as rapidly. He bought a chain of 31 small New England movie houses, and by 1928 his maneuverings in show business brought him control of the Keith-Albee-Orpheum chain. He went to Hollywood, spent 32 furious months investing in the movies, and came away about $5 million richer...
...Kennedys are plausibly said to be unaware of exactly what they own and where it is: the income matters, not the capital. Informed estimates of the wealth cluster around $400 million, putting the Kennedys well down on the list of the nation's richest dynasties. The fortune is unusual in several respects. It is one of the few modern American fortunes of such size not derived principally from oil. Well over $100 million came from real estate speculation conducted by astute agents after Joe Kennedy had more or less retired from an active business role. Another substantial portion-perhaps...