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With reason. While the U.S. has not experienced anything like the murder of West German Business Leader Hanns-Martin Schleyer last fall or the kidnaping of Belgian Industrialist Baron Edoard Jean Empain last winter, American executives have been frequent targets of violence. Indeed, according to a tally kept by the CIA, more than 40% of the 232 terrorist-connected kidnapings reported since 1970 (almost all in Latin America and Europe) have involved businessmen, one out of five of them Americans...
...began working at the turn of the century in the Offenbacher leather firm owned by his uncle. He eventually built it into one of the finest such companies in Europe. (The Grand Duke of Hesse enabled him to add the aristocratic von to his name by making him a baron.) Von Hirsch bought his first painting, a Toulouse-Lautrec, in 1907, and about that time also picked up a canvas dated 1901 by a 26-year-old Spaniard named Pablo Picasso. It was in the 1920s and early '30s, however, that Von Hirsch assembled his medieval collection...
...irrepressible to quench. He had Politicians' Euphoria, a condition I later came to recognize on election-night victories-that moment of vulnerability when candidates are at their loosest and most expansive. Ike held a drink in his hand, and I found myself in a corner encouraging his indiscretion. Baron Krupp had just been freed from Allied imprisonment; and two of us launched him on that subject. There was nothing we could do about Krupp now in 1952, said Ike; we had to let Krupp go free; but he didn't like...
...trim (5 ft. 11 in., 154 Ibs.) and ?yes?unmarried. As if this were not enough to thrill every mother (and every mother's daughter) in the entire United Kingdom, His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall and Rothesay, Earl of Chester and Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles and Great Steward of Scotland, is also heir to the classiest preserve of royal pomp and privilege left on earth: the British throne...
...labor in our own country shows that companies are usually unwilling to offer even small wage increases when labor has no effective bargaining power, as is the case in South Africa today. Even if corporations have developed a little more consideration for morality since the era of the Robber Baron, would they willingly accept the burden of huge wage increases while their competitors still benefit from nearslave labor? If the Harvard corporation is not ready to assume financial losses for the sake of ethical considerations, how can we realistically expect other corporations with more at stake...