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...same hopeless actress she has always been. It would require talent of a high order to make her role believable, however. She is supposed to be an international tycoon's kept woman. Unfortunately he keeps her very far away- in Mexico, while he is on a yacht off Monte Carlo. When he calls, she jumps, and all this abrupt, unexplained commuting takes its toll on Martin. A decent director (rather than the inept Anthony Harvey) might have spared her some of her most embarrassing moments, either with some lively, distracting staging or by simply calling "Cut" sooner...
...cosmetics, vitamins, jewelry, home-care products and some 4,000 brand-name appliances and other items direct to customers through catalogues by a network of 300,000 door-to-door salespeople. Amway's achievements are evident not only in its fleet of four corporate jets, its 119-ft. yacht (a 131-footer is on order) and its modern, saucer-shaped headquarters near Grand Rapids, but also in its founder's wealth. FORTUNE has estimated that Van Andel's personal net worth ranges from $300 million to $500 million...
...consisting of "a very sophisticated and educated group of professional people." Drugs were ferried, for example, by a couple of former commercial airline pilots who are believed to have known the gaps in the U.S. coastal radar network. A communications expert monitored secret DEA radio frequencies, and a yacht broker painted fake water lines on hulls so that boats would appear to be empty and riding high when actually loaded with marijuana...
...normally keeps dozens of new deals going at once. His independence gives him a competitive edge over rivals, who must go through strict management channels. Once, while spending a weekend relaxing aboard his company's 85-ft. yacht, the Curt-C, Carlson heard a Milwaukee promotion company that produces inflight shopping catalogues was for sale. He bought the firm within two days...
...largesse was just a trifle embarrassing since the Queen got a little bit better than she gave. Her official gifts to her hosts in Kuwait, Bah rain, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Oman were sterling silver salvers engraved with a picture of the royal yacht Britannia. The Guardian estimated that the salvers probably cost between $4,000 and $6,000 apiece, adding somewhat cattily that Britain's "balance of payments on the transaction looks extremely healthy." Still, as the paper observed, "it's the thought that counts...