Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doing brisk business. Complained one official: "I can't drink a beer without security men. I can't go to the toilet without security men. My family life is ruined. And I can't have a relationship with another woman without security men." A Bavarian tycoon grumbled that the elaborate alarm system hastily installed in his house is forever going off, "sending the two resident guards running into nowhere with their pistols." After the Schleyer kidnaping, Daimler-Benz received 138 orders for bulletproof Mercedes-Benz limousines...
...latest movie roles are a study in contrasts. The Mexican farmer he plays in The Children of Sánchez "is one of the poorest men in the world," says Anthony Quinn, 61. The shipping magnate he plays in The Greek Tycoon is one of the richest. The story, of course, is based largely on the life of Aristotle Onassis, who shortly before he died told Quinn not to hesitate to play the role. "Do it," he urged. "You'll treat me kindly." Since then Quinn has thought a lot about Onassis-and about Sánchez. Says...
...Army service number had never been officially issued. There was no record of his birth certificate, and his old Philadelphia home address turned out to be a vacant lot in an all-black neighborhood. When court proceedings and IRS collection procedures blew his cover in 1973, Tycoon Maris was forced to leave San Francisco in terror for his life...
...quite yet. The six-nation International Cricket Conference (ICC)* was still battling to ward off Communications Tycoon Kerry Packer, 39, who lured away the game's brightest lights with promises of filthy lucre. That is a rare commodity in cricket, where even playing for England, a superstar can aspire to no more than $35,000 a year and a run-of-the-mill professional only $6,600 a season. Packer offered far better salaries and planned a televised international all-star series matching "the rest of the world" against a formidable Australian side...
...things I've had a creative input in, it's going to mean something this time. It's one of my most favorite things that's happened." Well, yes. Thus Farrah Fawcett-Majors described the joys of her new career-as a perfume tycoon for Faberge. Corporate brass celebrated the deal with a Beverly Hills cocktail party last week, where among the guests was Faberge Director Cary Grant, who had never before met the lionized lady. Besides making ads for TV commercials, Farrah will endorse her own line of cosmetics and has been promised a hand...