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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...born to a Mississippi sharecropper and started his career with a $12.95 guitar. Now the value of Elvis Presley's multimillion-dollar empire cannot even be calculated (much of it is in future royalties). According to the terms of his will filed in a Tennessee court last week, Elvis' father, Vernon Presley, 62, is instructed to divide the estate among family members as he sees fit. The only kin mentioned were Elvis' daughter, Lisa Marie, 9, and his grandmother, Minnie Mae Presley, 85. The document, signed last March, makes no bequest to the singer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 5, 1977 | 9/5/1977 | See Source »

...corporate activity that the stock market's sag has not discouraged is the big takeover. Quite the contrary: partly because share prices are low, the number of multimillion-dollar mergers is rising. W.T. Grimm, a Chicago firm of merger consultants, counts a somewhat lower total number of mergers and acquisitions so far in 1977 than a year ago, but in the first six months of this year it found 20 cases in which a company proposed to pay $100 million or more for control of another firm, as compared with twelve bids of that size in the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Return of the Big Deal | 8/29/1977 | See Source »

Divorced. Christina Onassis, 26, daughter of Aristotle Onassis and principal heir to his multimillion-dollar shipping fortune; and her second husband, Alexander Andreadis, 32, heir apparent to his father's banking and industrial empire; after two years of marriage; in Athens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 25, 1977 | 7/25/1977 | See Source »

When it came down to the wire this January, however, most official College groups were awed by the multimillion dollar price tag Dean Rosovsky hung on the uniform four-year housing plan, and few were drawn to the North House proposal to further integrate upperclass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Moving around | 6/16/1977 | See Source »

...doing long-range forecasting for the Stanford Research Institute. Later he became a V.P. for a Bermuda-based investment company, then a co-founder of a small Swiss bank. The bank flourished, was subsequently bought out by United California Bank, and Erdman found himself wheeling and dealing in multimillion-dollar projects around the world. But in 1970 several officers in the bank's trading department illegally used $40 million of depositors' funds to speculate in commodities futures. Though no depositors lost money on the deals, Erdman, as the bank's president, was clapped in a Basel jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROPHECIES: Doom for Fun and Profit | 6/13/1977 | See Source »

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