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...worth and power. The presence of oil in the complicated psychology of anti-Westernism makes the volatility of the Islamic world especially perilous. It is an interesting point of Muslim psychology that the Arabs who grow unimaginably rich off Western payments for oil (and squander their petrodollars on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Rolls-Royces and golden bathroom fixtures) have still in them enough desert asceticism to be contemptuous of the West's energy addictions. So here the old relation is reversed: the West is dependent on the East, and is learning something about the frustration that...
...When they think about it, the two daughters-in-law practice their accents, droppin' g's like sure-'nuff Texans. When they do something besides thinking, like parading around the swimming pool, they sound as if the only Texans they know are those who shop on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills. Bel Geddes does not even attempt an accent, but she is so good at everything else that no one notices. Lucky Larry Hagman, who grew up in Texas, sounds just right...
...stitched the boots herself and peddled them all over Texas from her Model A Ford. Today her workers produce 1,500 pairs a day, though it still takes some 200 separate steps to make a single boot. Another oldtimer is T.C. ("Buck") Steiner, 79, a former rodeo star and owner of the Austin-based Capitol Saddlery. His boots take from five to nine weeks to complete, and prices range from $250 for cowhide to $1,000 for a pair of alligators. But the unquestioned doyen of the Texas bootmakers is Sam Lucchese (pronounced Lew Casey), who is, says Steiner...
...trails, which he traveled for his dad, and there are horse trails, which he travels for himself. Now Steven Ford, 23, son of the former President, has discovered more happy trails: he plays a deputy in an upcoming comedy western called Cattle Annie and Little Britches. Has the seasoned rodeo rider had any acting training? Sure, says Ford: "The 2½ years I spent being a President...
Nearly 60% of the gold that is sold ultimately becomes jewelry. In the U.S., it is marketed in shops from Beverly Hills' gilt-edged Rodeo Drive to Manhattan's grubby but thriving diamond district along West 47th Street, where wholesalers are constantly weighing their wares and repricing them as each new twitch in the gold markets alters their value...