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...during the early 1970s that Times Beach, looking to keep down the summer dust, hired a fellow to spread oil on ten miles of unpaved streets. Unfortunately, the oilman also filled his truck with waste sludge from a downstate chemical factory, and so for at least a couple of summers, he sprayed tens of thousands of gallons of a dioxin-laced goo all over town. The agent of the town's destruction was a man named Russell Bliss. "Do I blame Bliss?" asks Joe Capstick, who lived in Times Beach 14 years and, after the town's demise, moved down...
...films in March, cinema buffs have been predicting a sequel. Last week came Murdoch Part II. The Australian-born owner of the New York Post, Chicago Sun-Times and scores of other newspapers, magazines and TV stations announced he was buying the other half of Fox from Denver Oilman Marvin Davis. Price: $325 million cash plus real estate in Los Angeles, Pebble Beach, Calif., and Aspen, Colo...
...most people, an annual income of $35 million would be reason to celebrate. But heirs of Billionaire Oilman J. Paul Getty, who died in 1976, chose to litigate instead. In a bizarre and bitter feud, family members sued to break up the $4 billion trust that has been the source of their fortune and to remove Gordon Getty, 51, a son of J. Paul's, as sole trustee...
Last week, after 18 months of acrimonious court battles, family members agreed to settle the case. Under terms reached in Los Angeles, the Sarah C. Getty Trust -- named for the oilman's mother -- will be split into six parts. The agreement ends Gordon Getty's control of one of the largest U.S. family fortunes and divides the authority among the four branches of the Getty line, which includes 26 heirs. Said Seth Hufstedler, one of some 20 lawyers in the landmark case: "Great efforts have been made toward family peace. The alternative is clearly years and years of bitter litigation...
Some victims groups have carried their activity into courtrooms, trying to apply silent pressure on judges and juries by their stony presence. One such organization is led by a Houston socialite, Phyllis Morrow, 42, wife of a wealthy oilman. Her interest began in 1980 after she and her husband were robbed of $500,000 worth of jewelry. Her group also rates judges, advises victims on dealing with police and courts, and lobbies for laws to aid victims. Since the Goetz case, Morrow claims, "every legislator seems to want on the bandwagon to support a victims bill of rights...