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...those things that Venezuela's Prieto Quintuplets will have to learn to live with. In point of fact, they live rather well-thanks to Big Daddy Creole Petroleum Corp., for which Papacito Efrén Lubín Prieto, 39, works as a $10-a-day oilfield hand. Creole built for the family a $30,000 five-bedroom house in Maracaibo, also provides free medical care, while advertising contracts with Gerber and Klim give meat and milk. The big problem is telling them apart, though their mother insists that this is no problem at all. "Otto is the lovingest...
...Little John. Mecom lives with his wife and two daughters (he also has a married son) in a Frenchlike chateau in Houston, owns three cattle ranches and a private zoo of lions, zebras, gazelles and camels. A man who hardly hesitates before he plows $120 million into a Colombian oilfield, he is also known in hotels and restaurants on four continents as a lavish spender and tipper...
...California banker with embezzled funds, has also held resort hotels, antiques, furs and whisky warehouses. Occasionally the agency is even able to operate such enterprises more profitably than the original owners. It turned an abandoned Idaho gold mine into a tourist attraction, and still owns a Texas oilfield that earns $3,000 monthly...
...enemy column theoretically bearing toward it. This job was given to the U.S. paratroopers, who dropped in front of the invaders. At the same time, a U.S. amphibious force in the Persian Gulf sent a marine rifle com pany storming onto the island of Kharg to protect an imaginary oilfield against invasion or sabotage...
...RUMANIA. Rebelling against its COMECON-assigned role as Eastern Europe's vegetable garden and oilfield, Rumania has turned to the West for iron and aluminum plants. A new three-year trade agreement with West Germany provides for an exchange of goods worth $300 million. But Rumania must finance industrialization by exporting food. The unhappy result is a severe food shortage and painfully high prices; eggs go for 20? apiece...