Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these two slight offerings, Ronald Ribman's is the slighter. He has kept whatever he wanted to say in Fingernails Blue as Flowers so skillfully concealed as to make it the dramatic equivalent of the perfect crime. At a guess, its Jamaica resort-hotel setting and tycoon hero stand for the sappingly corruptive effect of the affluent society on all stages and ages...
...75th birthday, in 1969, Germany's Grain Tycoon Alfred C. Toepfer created a "European Award for Statesmanship," to be presented to the statesman who did most for the cause of European unity. After years of search, the selection committee picked their first prizewinner: Britain's Prime Minister Edward Heath, "for his outstanding services to the entry of Britain to the European Community, to European unification, and the standing of Europe in the world...
...believe that more lies have been printed and told about me than about any living man," said Howard Hughes, 65. Obviously, there was only one thing to do. Hughes has dictated his autobiography-from his Houston childhood through his careening career as moviemaker, airline owner, speed-record breaker, electronic tycoon, husband, and archrecluse. To help him tell his story, Hughes has appropriately chosen a fiction writer, Clifford Irving, author of several novels and Fake, the biography of the Hungarian forger of modern art, Elmyr de Hory. LIFE will print three 10,000 word installments of the book beginning in early...
...more notable of the two escapees was Joel David Kaplan, 44, a New York businessman and nephew of Molasses Tycoon Jacob M. Kaplan, whose J.M. Kaplan Fund was named in a 1964 congressional investigation as a conduit for CIA money for Latin America. The younger Kaplan had been convicted in 1962 for the Mexico City murder of his New York business partner, Louis Vidal Jr. Kaplan claimed at the trial that Vidal, who had been involved in narcotics and gunrunning, had constructed an elaborate plot to disappear. The murder victim, Kaplan maintained, was not even Vidal, and indeed, serious doubts...
...ances. A reformed alcoholic gone on to the Governor's mansion and the Senate, Hughes never got off the ground as a presidential candidate. His Gallup poll rating was 2%, and even this meager rating was suspect since he is often confused with Tycoon Howard Hughes...