Word: riches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ROSANNE RICH...
MORE people have probably seen Brumidi's Washington than the Mona Lisa in the Louvre. He has even been called the "Michelangelo of the U.S." But Michelangelo, at least, had rich patrons. Brumidi was paid $8 to $10 a day-the same wage that Congress allotted to the plasterers and stone masons who worked on the Capitol. His average salary, for 25 years of labor, was $3,200 a year. And he took on his last job with no assurance of payment...
...month ago the oil-rich sheikdom of Kuwait banned all liquor within its borders, and since then many of its thirsty citizens have been drinking everything in sight from perfume and eau de cologne to rubbing alcohol and Sterno - with predictably disastrous results. By last week, an estimated 150 Kuwaiti had died from alcohol poisoning, several hundred more had been blinded, and Kuwait's hospitals were filled to overflowing. Bathtub gin is flourishing, and bootlegging the real thing has become Kuwait's fastest growing business. A fifth of Dewar's White Label Scotch now commands a sheik...
...machines, won eight jackpots for a 31-hour total of $277.50. In all but one of the seven casinos they visited, the Aussies were firmly shown the door after ringing up a jackpot or two. "We're just here to prove our point," shrugged Clampett. "Not to get rich...
...casino doors to the delegation from Down Under. Still, the same Las Vegas operators who would not believe that the two-armed Aussies could outsmart one-armed bandits stood by expectantly for the hordes of tyros sure to buy the book and flock to Las Vegas to get rich quick. A few may, but as Clampett warns, bandit-beating takes skill as well as quarters...