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Last week the family revealed that it has completed the sale of 90% of its remaining silver hoard, amounting to some 53 million oz., for $320 million. The sell-off represented a multimillion-dollar loss for the Hunts, whose combined wealth had slipped from more than $5 billion in 1980 to about $2.2 billion before the sale...
DIED. Laura Ashley, 60, Welsh-born designer who with her husband Bernard turned her Victorian-inspired, flower-sprigged fabrics into ruffled, romantic fashions and a multimillion-dollar international clothing and housewares empire; of head injuries sustained in an accidental fall; in Coventry, England. What began in 1953 with tea towels silk-screened on the kitchen table of their London flat and sold to local shops became in 1967 the first Laura Ashley shop in London and is today a family-run business encompassing more than 200 shops from Milan to Melbourne, 70 of them...
...attempt to take over ABC which he ultimately gave up because it would have required him to leave his penthouse and make a personal appearance before the Federal Communications Commission; his frantic efforts under both Lyndon Johnson and Nixon to stop nuclear testing in Nevada and his offers of multimillion-dollar bribes to both if they would: the transfusions of pure Mormon blood he regularly purchased from Salt Lake City because they made him feel so good; his Thanksgiving 1970 top-secret "escape" from Nevada to the Bahamas, whence he conducted his operations until his condeine-ravaged, 94-pound body...
Kronberg, the project's director since 1976, coordinated funding for the multimillion dollar renovation from a variety of city, state, federal and private sources...
...Hearst Corp.) acquired the programming of the defunct Entertainment Channel, A&E is in the midst of a major push for viewers and visibility. During the first three months of this year, the network is introducing 45 new programs or series and has launched a multimillion-dollar national advertising campaign to promote them. More than 12 million cable homes now receive some or all of A&E's 20-hour-a-day schedule, usually as part of their basic cable service. Though viewership is still a tiny blip on A.C. Nielsen's meters, A&E is hanging...