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With fees from these prophecies, personal consulting and other services, DRI's revenues rose 35% last year, to just over $17 million, and profits climbed 70%, to $1,502,000; they are growing somewhat faster this year. That has made Eckstein, at 50, probably the richest American economist. Since DRI went public last November, the shares have bucked the bear market and risen from $11.50 to $18 bid, giving Eckstein and his family a stake of more than $4 million...
...latest movie roles are a study in contrasts. The Mexican farmer he plays in The Children of Sánchez "is one of the poorest men in the world," says Anthony Quinn, 61. The shipping magnate he plays in The Greek Tycoon is one of the richest. The story, of course, is based largely on the life of Aristotle Onassis, who shortly before he died told Quinn not to hesitate to play the role. "Do it," he urged. "You'll treat me kindly." Since then Quinn has thought a lot about Onassis-and about Sánchez. Says...
...rush is on in a thousand old mining locations across the country, including parts of New York, Pennsylvania and Georgia. The richest-and most crowded-site is the Mother Lode, a network of streams cutting through the High Sierra in Northern California. There at General John Suiter's mill, 90 miles south of Downieville, James Marshall set off the great gold rush of 1849 by discovering a shiny gilt object smaller than a pea. While the Mother Lode has yielded a billion dollars' worth of gold since then, geologists estimate that the vast majority of the region...
...such ideological allies of the Palestinians as the Soviet Union and China contribute arms and other materiel. In fact, despite the much publicized poverty and squalor of the refugee camps that provide the fedayeen with a power base and a manpower pool, the Palestinians have what is probably the richest, best-financed revolutionary terrorist organization in history...
...novel concerns the transformation of an innocent young French girl into a famous actress, mistress to the richest man in the world and would-be murderess. The story opens in Marseilles in 1939. Noelle Page's father sells her to the lascivious owner of a clothing store. Noelle escapes to Paris where, her first day there, she meets a dashing young American pilot named Larry Douglas. She falls in love with him and the two have an affair. There are the obligatory shots of the two young lovers romping in the park, gazing soulfully into each other's eyes...