Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nadian citizen, toured China for two months last spring, found that many businessmen had not only survived but thrived on Red soil. Though small-stuff storekeepers are included in Richman's 300,000, many are members of China's once-great landowning and industrial families. One textile tycoon, Richman reports, still receives $400,000 a year in dividends from his family holdings. Another, in the match business, pulls down...
Room 1026, the Audubon Suite, is occupied by Kevin McCarthy and Catherine Spaak, a hotel tycoon and the ornamental mistress he has purchased with his profits. A pious fraud who prays before he preys, McCarthy is determined by deal or steal to make the charming old hotel of the title just one more link in his chain. In an attempt to corrupt Hotel Manager Rod Taylor, McCarthy shamelessly offers him Spaak as a bribe. Rod likes, she likes. In the end, the villain misses a mistress...
...buildings in Colorado, but earned much of his money in such real estate developments as Denver's fashionable Cherry Creek Shopping Center. His first wife, Marjorie Mclntosh, was rich from Household Finance Corp. interests, and his present wife is the daughter of Horace Bennett, a Denver real estate tycoon. The Buells have asked only one favor: to be buried on the campus. The grateful trustees offered even more: they voted to change the school's name from Colorado Woman's (generally agreed to be rather dreary) to Temple Buell College...
...again a most intimate mole, in hopes of recovering the lost ecstasy of that first exposure to sexuality. What is ludicrous about this effaces what is poignant. The third and most effectively comic playlet, Orange Soufflé pits a "Polack whore" against her monthly client, an 88-year-old tycoon: she is hurt that he fails to recognize her social graces...
...without forced liquidation of assets. Bedas himself began a desperate hunt in New York for enough cash to keep control. Scenting the possibilities of snagging valuable property at distress prices, the Soviet Union turned bargain hunter, sent out feelers but backed away at the hefty asking price. U.S. Shipping Tycoon Daniel K. Ludwig, who recently tried unsuccessfully to merge his tiny Lebanese International Airways with Bedas' bigger line, expressed interest in buying stock control of the whole Intra empire. So did a consortium of European banks...