Word: riche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...velvet vest embroidered with 240 diamonds. Admirers gave her gilded carriages and chateaux, buckets of jewels, and a mansion on the Champs-Elysées. A U.S. millionaire invited Otero to a simple supper of caviar and oysters-in each oyster lay a pearl. By 1894 she was so rich that she spurned an offer of 10,000 francs for one night, and the luckless man killed himself in humiliation. Young Prince Peter of Russia begged Otero, "Ruin me, but don't leave me." Premier Aristide Briand traveled to the Riviera for Otero's birthday, and once...
...Reds' two prime targets are oil-rich Venezuela and adjoining Colombia. Thwarted in Venezuela when they invaded the cities to try and prevent presidential elections in 1963, FALN terrorists have returned to the remote hill country, where they are engaged in Castro-style campaigns to murder local authorities and win over the peasantry. In Colombia's northeast, where they have back-to-back liaison with Venezuelan terrorists across the border, Communist bands have been shooting, looting, and haranguing the terrified populace to join in a people's revolt. In the southwest, Colombia's notorious Bandit-turned...
...Securities and Exchange Commission charged Monday that 13 men--including one of the five Fellows of the University--illegally withheld information of a rich Canadian ore discovery while they, or their business associates, bought stock in the company that owned the deposits...
...brought suit against the men and the Texas Gulf Sulfur Company--the company which owns the rich deposits and of which the men are either employees, officers, or directors. The SEC is asking that the company and the men be compelled to reimburse people who sold them Texas Gulf stock without knowledge of the ore discovery...
According to the SEC's suit, the 12 other men first knew of the rich deposits of zinc and copper near Timmins, Ont. as early as Nov. 12, 1962. Acting on this information, these men bought Texas Gulf stock, the SEC alleged...