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Larry Cook (Jason Robards) has been farming his thousand acres so long and so well that his stature within his Iowa community is almost monarchical. "No one within 50 miles ever made any decision without consulting Daddy," says his oldest daughter Ginny (Jessica Lange), a modest and irresolute woman who has always lived under her father's thumb; at age 36, she still walks the half-mile to his house every morning so his breakfast is ready...
Lastly, the characterization of these students as "averse to modern people" is unfounded. What these students object to is not modernity, but the relatively brand-new policies which force all first and second-year students to live in co-ed dormitories with virtually no guidelines for modest speech or conduct...
Meanwhile, a call was put through to Paul, who three hours earlier had gone home to the modest apartment on the rue des Petits-Champs he shared with his mother. A onetime French air force officer, he had worked at the hotel for 11 years. Though he had taken two special driving courses at Mercedes headquarters in Stuttgart, he apparently did not have the professional chauffeur's license that French law requires. Acquaintances last week told reporters he had once been a heavy drinker, though a Ritz employee claimed that over the past year Paul's drinking had slowed down...
...Sultan denied the charges. Al Fayed bitterly attacked the report as a smear. "They could not accept that an Egyptian could own Harrods, so they threw mud at me," he once said. But acquaintances of his in Alexandria also describe the Fayeds as a modest family: al Fayed's father was a language teacher, and al Fayed grew up on the rougher side of town. He started as a small-time trader there, selling Singer sewing machines and Coca-Cola. In the early 1950s the future Saudi billionaire Adnan Khashoggi offered al Fayed a share in a Khashoggi business that...
...financed by his father," Khashoggi says. With the elder Fayed's help, Dodi supplied $3 million of the $6.5 million total budget for the 1981 movie Chariots of Fire. In subsequent years he announced dozens of projects that he later dropped, and most of his investments were modest. "Dodi didn't work a day in his life," says an industry insider. "This is a guy who really enjoyed life...