Word: ross
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ross Perot, 44. "Making money per se never really interested me," insists the clean-cut mule trader's son from Texarkana, Texas, who quit a salesman's job at IBM in 1962, worked briefly as a data processing manager for Blue Cross/Blue Shield, then set up the Dallas computer software firm of Electronic Data Systems with $1,000. By 1970 his assets had soared to as much as $1.5 billion. He promptly took an oceanic bath as the computer market went stale (in a single day the value of his stocks dropped $376 million), next scuttled tens...
...previously undefeated Eastern Sprints Champion lightweight eight--bow John Kiger, two Jerry Boak, three Bob Leahey, four Peter Huntsman, five Mac Heller, six Leif Soderberg, seven Tom Hackert, stroke Ned Reynolds and cox Chris Ross--the loss in the Henley finale marked a frustrating conclusion to a long, successful season. The lights got to the finals with considerable ease in their first four races of the Regatta, but the Antwerp team proved too much for the Crimson to handle, winning by about two and one-half seconds
Towne's script makes a nod to another Los Angeles mystery writer, Ross MacDonald, most markedly in its use of familial trauma in the plot solution. But it is to Chandler that the movie is very deeply indebted. No film has ever succeeded quite so well as Chinatown in conveying the ambience of Los Angeles before the war-sun-kissed, seedy and easy. The city was a central metaphor for Chandler, and it is brought alive here by Polanski and his collaborators, Production Designer Richard Sylbert and Costume Designer Anthea Sylbert. The film was photographed by John Alonzo...
Lloyd began as the insouciant star of the courtroom. The atmosphere be came heavier last week as the plaintiffs' attorney Edward Ross pressed on with the contention that Marlborough, anticipating a preliminary injunction barring further sales on consignment without the court's permission, had cooked up some complex deals to remove 35 Rothkos from the court's jurisdiction. Not so, said Lloyd, producing documents to show that in January and February of 1972 - months before the injunction was is sued in June - he had sold the 35 Rothkos to four wealthy collectors, including 20 to Italian Industrialist...
Endless Speculation. The plaintiffs' next assertions were yet more startling. Rothko's much-traveled paintings went almost immediately back to Europe, this time by costly air freight. Ross thinks it significant that they were rushed back directly after the injunction against sales went into action on June 23. By June 29, Ross claimed, 19 of Marinotti's 20 Rothkos, among others, were in a warehouse in Zurich where, if they had not yet been sold, they would have been out of U.S. jurisdiction. In Ross's view, this haste suggests an intent to de fraud...