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...Nina and Harvardman ('54) Sadri, half brother of the late Aly Khan, were separated for nearly two years-she fluttering around Paris, he roaming from Arab sheikdoms to Congolese refugee camps for the U.N. Sadri's lawyer, aware that it cost German-born Steel Heir Baron Heinrich von Thyssen more than $1,000,000 and a French chateau to shed Nina in 1957, was on his guard. Said he: "We are well armed against any such demand...
...distressing shock for the baron. He had barely bought a large Tiepolo in Venice in 1865 when the Venetian court, foretokening the laws against exporting art treasures that apply now in all major Western countries but the U.S. and Switzerland, ruled that he could not take it away. Baron de Schwiter, a diplomat, got an Austrian colleague to smuggle it out anyway; now, decades later, it has ended up in the U.S., the country whose eager art buying inspired most of the protectionist laws elsewhere. Last week the Boston Museum of Fine Arts announced that it had acquired the Tiepolo...
...said Hoffa had slugged him was Samuel Baron, 59, the 5-ft. 6½-in., 152-lb. field director of the Teamsters' warehouse division. Baron told how he and labor's little Napoleon had been feuding for years. During an argument in the union's Washington headquarters, Baron said, Hoffa suddenly began advancing on him with fists clenched and jaw muscles twitching. "I thought," said Baron, " 'This man is absolutely out of his mind.' Before I know it, he swings and catches me in the left eye and knocks me down...
...court, Hoffa pleaded not guilty to the charge of assault and was granted a jury trial. If convicted, he could get up to one year in jail and a $500 fine. But Baron, for one, was not optimistic about the chances of any other Teamster witness testifying against their hard-bitten boss...
Latin America's greatest press baron...