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...tells viewers that the rich really are different: they sin more spectacularly and suffer in style. The program's high-gloss handsomeness brings a touch of class to the ruck of commercial series TV. The Ewing home at Southfork Ranch, where eight members of one of Texas' wealthiest families contrive to live under one roof, resembles a formicary of Neiman-Marcus showrooms. Every taste and no taste is represented here: satin pillowcases, china dogs, replicas of Steuben vases, gilt-framed imitations of Frederic Remington, bedroom closets that look like mink cemeteries. The budget for a typical Dallas episode...
...seemed an unlikely predicament for Bjorn Borg, the world's wealthiest tennis player, but Borg rarely carries much cash with him. He does not have to. A small army of accountants, financial advisers, marketing experts and other support troops are employed to manage his money, his personal needs and his vastly lucrative image. Borg has not quite reached the dizzying heights of Arnold Palmer, the top earner in all of sport, who has made roughly $60 million in his career from golf and business ventures. "But he's getting closer," says Mark McCormack, founder and president of Cleveland...
...foes also maintain that cutting income taxes in half would benefit the rich far more than middle-and lowin come people. Says Roland Vincent, a Los Angeles investment counselor and a leading opponent of Proposition 9: "About $3 billion in tax relief would go to about 10% of the wealthiest taxpayers in the state." His opinion seems widespread: a Los Angeles Times poll indicates that 37% of the voters who approved Proposition 13 will vote against Proposition...
...Pont family would have a horse-laugh at the expense of that thesis. The du Ponts were a self-proclaimed aristocracy, a family that preferred its sons and daughters to marry cousins so as not to sully the family blood. By the 1920s they were the wealthiest and most powerful family in the country. They controlled General Motors and U.S. Rubber, as well as their own corporation. People said they owned the state of Delaware--and, in a way, they did. Individual du Ponts owned most of the state's prime real estate, both major newspapers and the major industries...
Worst hit were the chic canyons in the Santa Monica Mountains to the north and east of downtown Los Angeles. The hills are home to some of the area's wealthiest and most famous people, who live in semi-rural splendor in houses on the canyon bottoms, surrounded by oak trees and chaparral, or in hillside houses perched on stilts. Since fires-another scourge of the well-to-do Angelenos-have destroyed much of the vegetation in past years, the earth was quickly saturated by the rains. It turned into avalanches of mud that swept down the hillsides...