Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Amelie Thyssen, 87, widow of German Steel Tycoon Fritz Thyssen and heiress, along with her daughter, Countess Anita de Zichy-Thyssen of Buenos Aires, to his giant Ruhr Valley coal and steel complex, which was confiscated by the Nazis when the Thyssens fled the Third Reich in 1939 and now worth an estimated $1 billion; of complications following a fall; near Straubing, Germany...
...Cessna 172 floatplane from Lake Union Air Service whisks Chip Prentice, 7, between his island summer home on Puget Sound and school in Seattle 15 miles away. Cost to his dad, the owner of two manufacturing firms: $16 a day, round trip. When Winthrop Rockefeller or ex-Labor Tycoon David McDonald travels from Los Angeles to Palm Springs, he makes the trip by air taxi in 30 minutes (v. two hours by auto) at a cost...
...sell the family's china factory. Though Peppard was once a ne'er-do-well, amnesia has instantly transformed him into a decent chap who knows he is incapable of murder and irresponsible profiteering. He finds a kindred soul in his father-in-law (Herbert Marshall), a tycoon smitten with aphasia and therefore exempted from many a dull speech. Reels later, the hero's name, his wife's pretty neck, his marriage and the fine china are salvaged. Actors Peppard and Ashley, a romantic duo off screen as well as on, toil in vain to capture...
Girard (actually a school rather than a college) bars Negroes because of the seemingly unbreakable will of Founder Stephen Girard. When he died in 1831, reputedly the nation's richest man, Shipping Tycoon Girard added a segregation clause to his $6,000,000 bequest on the then plausible theory that quality education would suffer if the sons of slaves were mixed with the sons of whites. Agreeing at the time, the city accepted the money, and the state later ran the school with public trustees...
Director Elio Petri is deft and stylish with an escapade between a svelte, sexually inhibited matron (Claire Bloom) and an ardent industrialist (Charles Aznavour). After chasing around the tycoon's sumptuous beach house, the lady reveals that her whim for today is rough stuff in a sleazy motel room-a touch of aberration that is clue to a conventional surprise ending. In the last episode, Modern People, directed with rich detail and folksy color by Mario Monicelli (Big Deal on Madonna Street), a cheese dealer (Ugo Tognazzi) offers his wife to a creditor in payment of his gambling losses...