Word: riche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Egon Zimmermann, 23, never took a skiing lesson in his life. Born in the Tyrolean resort of Lech am Arlberg, he picked up free pointers by watching rich tourists practice stem Christies on the slopes around the Zimmermann family inn. Packed off to Paris' ritzy Ledoyen restaurant at 15 to learn the art of French cooking, Egon showed a fine flair for mousse-making-whenever he could be persuaded to come in out of the snow. At 18, he won all three Alpine events at the Austrian junior championships, and experts began calling him "the new Toni Sailer...
Buoyed by a rising economy, protected by destiny against the ravages of war and stimulated by a never-ending influx of capital from less fortunate lands, Switzerland has long sat rich and contented in the heart of Europe. Switzerland's economic life, in fact, has ticked along for years with the precision and balance of a fine Swiss clock. Last week the alarm rang loudly, waking the Swiss from their reverie...
Died. Waite Phillips, 81, Oklahoma oil millionaire and philanthropist, brother of the two founders of Phillips Petroleum Co., who himself struck it rich wheeling and dealing in oil properties during World War I, formed his own Waite Phillips Co. that he sold in 1925 for an estimated $40 million, branched into office buildings, ranching and banks (cofounder of Tulsa's largest, the First National Bank and Trust), then gave his 127,000-acre ranch Philmont and Tulsa's 23-story Philtower to the Boy Scouts, donated most of his other real estate to worthy causes, and retired...
Dead Ringer is predicated on the proposition that two Bette Davises are better than one. Bette plays a set of identical twins: one named Maggie, one named Edie, both at the hag end of middle age. Poor Edie hates rich Maggie because Maggie stole the man she had once wanted to marry. When Maggie's husband dies, Edie decides that his money rightfully belongs to her. So she puts a bullet in Maggie's head, a revolver in Maggie's hand and Edie's clothes on Maggie's back. Maggie is buried in Edie...
...these spirited short stories, Sillitoe's characters command a rich dialect in which the underdog facetiousness blurs but does not hide wary resentment or cynical despair. In their softer moments, they would like to live like their betters-ride bikes, wear cloth caps, eat fish and chips, play the football pools, and watch the telly on a paid-up set. For those simple pleasures of the poor, sex and the bottle, they have the same words: they "have a bash...