Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Giscard was born to a tradition of wealth and public service. One of her grandfathers was Eugène Schneider, the 19th century steel tycoon. Her father was a career military officer who fought with the French Resistance before his capture by the Gestapo and died while a prisoner at Mauthausen concentration camp. Anne-Aymone was an 18-year-old secretarial student when she met Giscard, then 26 and a promising young official in the Finance Ministry. They were married, after a brief courtship...
...estate in western England, the right schools, a grand tour of Europe at the age of 14 and a trust fund set up by her wealthy, doting parents that yielded her thousands of dollars annually. Yet last week Bridget Rose Dugdale, 33-year-old daughter of a British insurance tycoon, was in jail-again. The blonde, Oxford-educated million-heiress was accused of masterminding and directing the largest art theft in recent history: last month's looting of 19 masterpieces, including paintings by Goya and Gainsborough, from the Irish manor home of Mining Heir Sir Alfred Beit...
Presidential aides pointedly said that Nixon wanted no help from anyone in meeting his tax obligation. Bruce Herschensohn, the presidential assistant assigned to work with groups supporting Nixon, claimed that his telephone rang repeatedly all week with offers. One came from Chicago Insurance Tycoon W. Clement Stone, who contributed some $2 million to Nixon's re-election campaign. He said he would be willing to give enough money to pay the whole tax bill because "Nixon is the greatest President of the U.S. ever." Nancy Davis, of Tulsa, Okla., proposed that "as many people as possible send...
...widowed when her handsome Irish American husband, U.S. President Jimmy Ryan, is struck down in mid-term by a heart attack. Struggling to make ends meet on $30,000 a year, she finally selects her sister's lover, Baron Erick de Savonne, an aging but agile French tycoon. Dolores nets a $10 million marriage contract-but nothing more. On their wedding night, the Baron leaves his weeping bride alone with her 60-carat diamond ring for the bed of his true love, world-famous Ballerina Ludmilla Rosenko. Susann denies that Dolores is a roman à clef but adds...
...National League club owners unanimously agreed yesterday to sell the San Diego Padres to hamburger tycoon Ray A. Kroc, apparently ending months of controversy over the club's ownership...