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Hyams is chairman of Oldham Estate Co., a $355 million property firm, most of which he owns. The son of a small-time London merchant and bookmaker, he started working as an office boy in a real estate agency at age 17 and became a sterling millionaire while still in his twenties. In 1959 he bought Oldham Estates, an obscure Lancashire property concern, and has used the company as a base for rapidly proliferating real estate ventures in London. A $100 investment in Oldham stock in 1959 would be worth $75,000 today...
...European cities. And whenever possible he tries to find a single blue-chip tenant to fill each of his buildings who will be responsible for all repairs and insurance and can sublet part of the space. "All we have to do is collect the rent," explains an Oldham agent. As a result, Hyams manages his entire real estate empire with a staff of about...
...company at Khe Sanh called the Lancers, the pilots have organized a pool; the pot-$5 from each aircraft commander-goes to the ship with the greatest accumulation of bullet holes when Lam Son finally ends (choppers that crash are disqualified). Says soft-spoken Huey Pilot John Oldham. 22, of Peculiar, Mo.: "If you think about getting killed, it will screw you up. You just do the job you are trained for." Over Laos, where the elaborate Communist antiaircraft system is especially potent, the pilots fly high-but not on grass. There may be plenty of pot smokers in Viet...
Says the Stones' recording manager, Andrew Oldham, 23: "Pop music is sex and you have to hit them in the face with it." That pleasant chore falls to Mick Jagger, 23, the Stones' heavy-lipped lead shouter, who in performances bumps, grinds and jiggles his pelvis like a spastic marionette. Jagger also has a summons to appear in a Sussex court next month on a charge of possessing drugs...
Within four months, Churchill, then 25, was elected Tory M.P. for Oldham, a sturdy working-class constituency in the industrial north. To finance his new career, he earned $50,000 in five months by lecturing to packed audiences throughout Britain, then the U.S. He knew at once how to delight Americans. When a reporter asked him what he thought of New York, Churchill said gravely: "Newspaper too thick, lavatory paper too thin...