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...sunny morning in Reno, Barbara Jievute Paulekiute Sears ("Bo-bo") Rockefeller, excitedly chomping gum and convoyed by nine lawyers (only seven hers), two bankers and a pressagent, walked into a judge's chambers. Fourteen minutes later, she emerged as a new proof of an American dream story. After six years of marriage (her second), nearly five of separation, sporadic salvos of parting shots, Bobo, blonde, 37, was no longer the wife of Winthrop Rockefeller, 42. Her record settlement jackpot: $2,000,000 in cash, $3,500,000 in trust funds for herself and little Winnie, 5. One of Rockefeller...
Bobo had no idea how fast the gold would rush ("I haven't had time to figure it out"), but she was in a mood to celebrate. One evening later, coquettishly holding hands with Reno Hotelman Charles Mapes, Bobo showed up at a big stone castle on Lake Tahoe, where an even richer lady, Elsinore Machris Gillilan, a bride of 70 who inherited $20 million from her previous oil-drenched husband, was tossing a small, make-believe Hawaiian luau (a beach wassail where revelers cry "Oahu!"). There was no poi or okolehau, but there were oodles of orchids...
...guest read a dinner menu on his TV set or give him a look at the nightclub act going on downstairs. In Las Vegas, the plush Sands Hotel is installing a TV detective system to watch over the gaming tables, seek out cheating customers or croupiers (Harolds Club, Reno's massive gambling palace, tried TV for a while, but dropped it in favor of its time-tested system of watchmen who prowl catwalks behind the murals...
...father's name, she changed hers to Stevens. It took her a while to learn to put a song across, and her first few engagements (in Las Vegas, Nev., Chicago, New Orleans) were disappointing. She picked up know-how in the big, brassy clubs of Reno and Montreal. "I learned to give a rough, hip-swinging show in those barns," she says. "If they don't like you in the barns, they just yell 'Get off the floor...
...deeper and drill other wells around Eagle Springs' perimeter before it claims a big field. But Nevada was already in the grip of an oil fever. By week's end, some 2,000,000 acres had been filed on, bringing more than $1,000,000 into Reno's land office...