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DIED. JAY VAN ANDEL, 80, billionaire co-founder of direct-sales behemoth Amway; in Ada, Mich. With his childhood friend Richard DeVos, Van Andel founded the company in the pair's basements in 1959 and built it into a worldwide network of individual distributors who sold cosmetics and furniture polish and earned a cut for recruiting others. In the 1970s the government investigated Amway, suspecting it was a pyramid scheme, but the charges were never proved. In 2000, it became part of a larger sales and business-services company, Alticor Inc., formed by Van Andel's and DeVos' families...
...DIED. JAY VAN ANDEL, 80, billionaire co-founder of direct-sales behemoth Amway; in Ada, Michigan. With his childhood friend Richard DeVos, Van Andel founded the company in the pair's basements in 1959 and built it into a worldwide network of individual distributors who sold cosmetics and furniture polish and earned a cut for recruiting others. In the 1970s the U.S. government investigated Amway, suspecting it was a pyramid scheme, but the charges were never proved. In 2000, Amway became part of a larger sales and business-services company, Alticor Inc., formed by Van Andel's and DeVos' families...
...Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper what's been the greatest technological advance in her lifetime, and she'll tell you it's the automobile. A lot of other people might have chosen television, the Internet or even the cell phone. But Van Andel-Schipper has a longer perspective than most. Born in the village of Smilde in the eastern part of the Netherlands in 1890, she is, at 114, the oldest person in the world - so she's seen her share of technological marvels. Though she's watched how cars have changed the world, she never learned to drive herself, instead...
Decisions that were never easy have become even harder: Sue Medrano, an information-systems analyst for a large brokerage firm in San Francisco, is thrilled to be making $70,000 a year but can't figure out when to take a vacation, let alone have a baby. Lynn Andel, an advertising writer in Crestwood, Mo., isn't sure whether to buy life insurance to protect her kids or invest in stocks for her retirement. In this climate, it is easy to find people like the Jorjorians in affluent Wilmette, Ill., who are raising two children and finding it tough...
DeVos professes to believe that the Canadian officials who brought the criminal charges may not like some of his and Van Andel's outspoken stands on free enterprise or their support of organizations of the right, such as the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge, Morality in Media, and various fundamentalist Christian organizations...