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...Communists who were on the wrong end of the protest vote. Communist Leader Carl-Henrik Hermansson roundly denounced the Soviet invasion and was denounced by Moscow radio in turn as "the chatterbox husband of a millionairess"-his wife is the daughter of a Göteborg clothing-store tycoon. Hermansson regularly ignores Moscow's line, and the party has become so bourgeois that he once campaigned on a platform of two houses for every family. Still, Sweden's voters were not reassured. While the Communists had won more than 6% of the popular vote and eight seats...
JIMMY SHINE, another entry by Murray Schisgal, with The Graduate's Dustin Hoffman. A young artist's best friend makes it as a real estate tycoon...
When the Norwegian shipping tycoon first showed his bride, a lover of 19th century art, around his Manhattan apartment back in 1956, she took one horrified look at the wealth of modern art hanging on the walls and gasped: "It's a nice place, but get rid of those terrible paintings!" Twelve years later, Sonja Henie, 55, is finally getting that wish. She and her husband Niels Onstad are giving Oslo an $8 million gallery to be stocked with more than 200 paintings from their world-famed collection of moderns. But the parting, it turns out, is sweet sorrow...
Reddin is probably also one of the few chiefs who never thought of becoming a cop until he was 24, almost middle age for a rookie. The son of a flamboyant carnival tycoon who made more than $1,000,000 building amusement parks in Europe and Australia, Reddin was born in New York City. The family moved to Holdenville, Okla., when his father scented more money in petroleum than suckers-and suckered himself into penury. "While Indians were discovering oil under just about every campfire pit," observes Reddin, "Dad managed to drill more dry holes than anyone else...
Thomas Crown (Steve McQueen) is a Boston tycoon with a brilliant criminal mind. Uneasy lies the Crown that wears a head. To pique the Establishment that he is part of, he hires some crooks and stages a flawless $2,660,527.62 robbery that leaves the police without a clue. Enter Faye Dunaway, girl insurance investigator who has slept her way to the top of the business...