Word: oilman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with the enemy could earn Rich and Green prison sentences totaling 325 years each, fines of more than $500,000 and confiscation of millions of dollars in assets. One of Rich's holdings is a co-ownership in 20th Century-Fox, which his company controls jointly with Denver Oilman Marvin Davis...
...main route for tens of thousands of Connecticut suburbanites who commute daily to Manhattan. When the bridge collapsed just before 1:30 a.m., however, only four vehicles were zooming over the affected eastbound lanes: two tractor-trailers and two passenger cars. A few hundred feet away, Gordon Oilman was drawn to his home's riverfront window. "I thought I heard an explosion," he says. "I looked out and saw a truck and a car coming off the bridge...
Today the Kansas City complex consists of about a dozen underground areas. One of the largest is owned by Great Midwest Corp., a land-development company that is a subsidiary of Hunt Midwest Enterprises, which in turn is 90% owned by Texas Oilman Lamar Hunt. From a distance, the rocky bluff along the Missouri River does not look any different from the surrounding area. Closer up, just below a mixed herd of grazing Angus and Hereford cattle, a hole in the bluff can be seen with big semitrailers going in and out. The address: 8300 N.E. Underground Drive. From another...
...last year of his wife Princess Grace, but as an ever increasing pack of press photographers dogged the family's every move, the vacation soured into a series of spirited confrontations between Grimaldis and paparazzi. Outside his Park Avenue hotel with Socialite Lynn Wyatt, the wife of Texas Oilman Oscar Wyatt and an old family friend, Rainier ran up against a virtual wall of press lenses. Momentarily losing his temper, he reportedly lunged forward and hit one of the photographers, sending the fellow's glasses skittering across the pavement. At a Broadway theater the next night, Rainier...
...Texas hamlet, he drove his Mexican-American students relentlessly, and gave them self-respect and ambitions they had never known. In the book's most touching chapter, Caro describes Johnson's enduring love for Alice Glass, the high-spirited mistress and later the wife of Publisher and Oilman Charles Marsh. Their affair began in 1938, after Alice, then 26, met the tall, jug-eared Congressman, then 29, during a party at Longlea, her regal Virginia estate. He arranged a visa extension at her request for Conductor Erich Leinsdorf, an Austrian Jew fleeing the Nazis. The relationship continued until...