Word: pantaraxia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...amused themselves by calculating that Oil Billionaires J. Paul Getty, 72, and Nubar Gulbenkian, 68, grew about $20,000 richer in the hour they sat absorbing asparagus souffle, boiled salmon and a monologue from their table partner, Actress Hermione Gingold. The party was to launch Gulbenkian's biography, Pantaraxia (loose translation from the Greek: keeping people on their toes), which tells how he enlarged the fortune accumulated in Middle Eastern oil by his late father Calouste ("Mr. Five Per Cent") Gulbenkian. When the two finally got off nose to nose in a corner, did they discuss Pantaraxia or Getty...
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