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...loses $16 million 'T is the season when the beautiful people cluster at one of their favorite In places, the Spanish Mediterranean resort of Marbella, just west down the coast from Malaga. Clustering there too this Christmas, alas for them, were the creme de la creme of criminals. When Francisco Yelamo, director of the Marbella branch of the Banco de Andalucia, unlocked his bank on the town's main street, the Avenida de Ricardo Soriano, at the end of the Christmas holiday early last week, he opened the doors on a burglary so thorough that it rocked...
Little of the loot was insured, and much of it appeared difficult to trace. At week's end police were still trying to learn how much had been taken. Some of the wealthy victims were not in Marbella last week; others preferred to wait to talk to the police until after the mob of Spanish journalists who had swarmed to the resort had disappeared. In addition, some of the money that had been taken might have been what the Spanish refer to as "black money," undeclared income that its owners would just as soon not mention to the authorities...
...chief executive of one of the world's wealthiest countries, Fahd has in recent years become something of a workaholic, although he still keeps palatial mansions in Riyadh, London, Marbella, Geneva and on the Riviera, as well as a 3,600-ton yacht, The Atlantis, in which he cruises the Mediterranean. Says Arabist Peter Iseman: "Fahd has a conspicuously more global vision than a great majority of his brothers. Yet being with him is similar to taking a warm bath: he is extremely agreeable, warm, charming, witty." Friends say he is especially devoted to his son Abdul Aziz...
...best tests of golf in Spain are Nueva Andalucia near Marbella and Sotogrande in Cadiz. Both were designed by Robert Trent Jones along the Costa del Sol. Angel migual is the pro at Nueva Andalucia, which played host to the World Cup in 1973 when Nicklaus and Johnny Miller won. Vik shot a 70 the first time he played this course just next to a bullring and the Sierra Blanca mountains...
Today, at age six, Leandro is a pianistic sensation who has been applauded wildly from London to Lugano. Just as Rubinstein was taken to Joachim, so young Aconcha was taken to the venerable Rubinstein in 1970 at his vacation villa in Marbella, Spain. "Instead of hanging about the piano like a little monkey," chuckled Rubinstein shortly thereafter, "he ran about the house and hurtled through the garden." When the boy finally sat down to play, "not one note was missing. I was four when I started to play and he was three, but even at the age of eight...