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Women's suffrage? Not a soul in the postage-stamp principality of Liechtenstein (pop. 22,000) would dare admit to being against it. All three newspapers supported it. Every automobile in sight had a sticker reading I'M FOR IT. Dozens of reporters searched for days without finding a single man who would speak out in opposition. Yet last week, when Liechtenstein's conservative, German-speaking male voters went to the polls, only 1,817 said ja, while 1,897 voted nein...
Occupying only 62 square miles in the mountains between Austria and Switzerland, Liechtenstein has few but varied claims to fame. It is ruled by a prince from one of Europe's oldest royal families and is the world's second largest producer of false teeth (after the U.S.). It has no currency of its own, nor does it have soldiers, unemployment, slums or airports. Last week's vote left Liechtenstein another distinction: it is the only European country without female suffrage, leaving it in the same category as Jordan, Kuwait, Northern Nigeria, Yemen and Saudi Arabia (where...
...Christ, I can't imagine," says his friend, Producer Sid Krassman. But soon Sid has wrung three million out of the tourist-starved principality of Liechtenstein to help finance the monstrosity and assured the rest by signing up Angela Sterling, "the highest-paid darling of the silver screen - nailing a cool one and a quarter big ones per pic, plus ten percent of the boxoroonie, going...
Frederick Mont sells mostly European old masters mostly to U.S. museums; he was chosen as sole agent by the Prince of Liechtenstein for the sale of masterpieces from his collection. Mathias Komor, 61, comes from a family that has dealt in Chinese antiquities for 100 years. "A private dealer used to be terribly old or terribly rich, but now there are more younger people in the field," says Robert Osborne, 40, whose main interest is early Italian paintings...
...Foremost Brands Inc. and McInerney Sales Inc., and also acted as sales representatives in Europe for several U.S. corporations, making their sales largely to American PXs. They are accused of diverting some $3 million in commissions to a secret bank account through a dummy trust registered in Liechtenstein...