Word: riche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...complicated and expensive requirements of today's oil exploration-basically, more distant searches and deeper drilling with more sophisticated equipment-have shut out most of the old breed of independent operators. A few independents, however, are still rich and ready enough for global competition with the major companies-and one of the richest and readiest is a stocky, straightforward Texan named John Whitfield Mecom. At 53, Mecom has amassed assets of between $400 million and $500 million, reaped largely from 30 years of roaming the world in search of oil. Last week, on yet another search, he started drilling...
Blonde & Boat. Raised in London's squalid East End, John Bloom quit school at 16, stumbled from one get-rich scheme to another. In 1958 he finally hit the right chord: he splurged $1,187 on an ad in the tabloid Daily Mirror (circ. 5,000,000) offering home washing-machine demonstrations. The ad drew 7,000 replies from prospering Britons-and Bloom soon had a firm set up to sell them. His unorthodox selling and barebone prices quickly cornered 10% of the washer market. Bloom then bought out lifeless Rolls, an old razor maker...
...never should have been put in the can. Disguised as a surf saga, the movie has one good surfing sequence and little else. Pamela Tiffin, James Darren, Tina Louise, Nancy Sinatra, Comedians Paul Lynde and Woody Woodbury struggle to get a foothold in the slippery story about a rich campus cutup and a poor coed. But the standout performer is a bearded beachnik called Kelp. He paints a small face on his chin, upside down. Then he covers himself with sand, leaving the bottom half of his face exposed, and spiels gags. The gags aren't funny...
...Egypt is rich in raw materials and relies heavily on them for export; one result is that prime places at the fair were given to models of mines and oil rigs, and to Egypt's fine cottons. But the surprise was the amount of consumer goods at the fair-55% of the total. They included many brand-new products, and ranged from TV sets and Pharmaceuticals to autos assembled in Egypt and turquoise jewelry from mines that were worked before Christ but only rediscovered last year. The Egyptians have developed a strong plastics industry to make everything from spoons...
...Caesar, less convincing than The Roaring Twenties, and less tuneful than Guys and Dolls. Proceeding on the reckless assumption that an old movie made over is better than no movie at all, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. pretend to be vintage Chicago hipsters who rob the rich and give to the poor-though the poor slobs who can't share the fun without buying a ticket may wonder whether it isn't the other way around. The actors snap, their fingers at the plot, and Bing Crosby pops in from time to time...