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Like the name of Rockefeller in the U.S., that of Byung Chull Lee means wealth in South Korea. Now 66, Lee has amassed his nation's largest personal fortune-some $500 million, or enough to put him in the same league with Karim Aga Khan, Nelson Bunker Hunt and Christina Onassis. He made every penny of it himself, building such a profitable group of diverse companies that Korean businessmen say he has a "golden touch." They also view him with fear: Lee does not gladly suffer critics or competitors...
...Mono Lisa?" Sheed asks aimlessly. And elsewhere: "It was almost as hard to tell how much Ali was really suffering as it is with his fellow Capricorn Nixon-I don't believe in Astrology, but... ?" and, "He reigns on in splendid detachment, like the last Romanoff or the Aga Khan-what is an Aga anyway? Is it a place or something...
Born. To Karim Aga Khan, 37, Harvard-educated spiritual leader of 20 million Ismaili Moslems, who regard him as a 49th-generation direct descendant of the prophet Mohammed, and the Begum Aga Khan, 33, formerly Sarah Croker Poole, a British model: their third child, second_son; in Chambésy, Switzerland. Name: Hussain...
...with ordinary mannequins, would stage a kind of high-budget vaudeville called "Le Grand Divertissement à Versailles." The money? Ah, yes, patrons like the Baroness Marie-Hélène de Rothschild would angel the operation, and people like Amanda Burden, Princess Grace, the Charles Revsons and Karim Aga Khan would lend their glamorous names as sponsors. Last week it all happened, more or less as planned. But as with the 1770 fireworks, there was rain on the big parade. In fact, the preparations preceding the show demonstrated just how bad Franco-American relations can be even where NATO...
...Academic Committee of the Association, under the chairmanship of Richard N. Frye, Aga Kahn Professor of Iranian, is scheduled to review the Association's master plan for academic affairs...