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...being built nearby for the Maharishi's new twin-engined Beechcraft Baron, the gift of the International Meditation Society, and a rough helipad has been cleared away on the hillside. Most of the improvements have been bankrolled by the initiation fee of the Maharishi's move ment-a flat donation of the pilgrim's salary for one week, which can add up to a tidy sum when the salaries are the Beatles...
...make their transition to retire ment less harsh, Obote is arranging severance pay for the kings in amounts ranging from $25,000 for the ex-Queen of Buganda, who stayed behind when Freddie fled, to $70,500 for the Omukama of Bunyoro. Obote has confiscated, however, most of the splendid trappings of royalty. He sent a dump truck to cart off the Omugabe of Ankole's throne, his velvet ceremonial robes, his gilt crowns and his fat royal drums of buckskin. Last week the aging, potbellied Omukama of Bunyoro watched sadly as his regalia of silken robes and black...
...physician or surgeon would be delighted to find a preventive or treat ment for atherosclerosis. Dr. Fuson had an added personal reason for investigating cholestyramine, he told the American College of Surgeons last week. In his early 30s, he already had a cholesterol reading above 250 mg., on the edge of the danger zone, and he weighed 226 Ibs. There was a depressing history of heart disease in his family...
...Allman also pours forth a salary that, at $112,000 a year, is second only to Flour Tycoon Joseph Rank's ($117,600) in Britain. Unlike most British corporate chiefs, Matchan paved his way to the top not on the playing fields of Eton but at London amuse ment parks and movie lots. The son of a sewing-machine repairman, Matchan parlayed a modest talent for figures and an immodest one for braggadocio into a youthful career as a "financial ad viser" to showfolk. At 25, he landed a bookkeeping job with Max Factor when the U.S. cosmetics maker...
Looking forward to his 83rd birth day next month - and backward on a 65-year career in merchandising - the chairman of the U.S.'s largest depart ment store group announced last week that he was relinquishing his title. Fred Lazarus Jr. turned full command over to Son Ralph, 53, and will keep only the honorary assignment of executive committee chairman of Federated Department Stores Inc. The man succeed ing Ralph as president of the Cincinnati-based organization is J. Paul Sticht, 49, a onetimeCampbell Soup Co. executive who joined Federated in 1960 and has been serving as a vice...