Word: onassisism
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In the Greek fishing hamlet of Nidri, the villagers waited in a light rain. Soon the mourners would arrive to ferry across to Aristotle Onassis' private Ionian island of Skorpids and witness the simple rites he had requested and bury him under a cypress tree near his only son...
Life changed dramatically for Onassis two years ago, when his son Alexander, then 24, was killed in a plane crash. "He aged overnight," observed a close associate. "He suddenly became an old man." In business negotiations he was uncharacteristically absentminded, irrational and petulant.
In his last public appearances, the lingering effects of myasthenia gravis were apparent: his eyelids were taped open because his muscles had become too weak to hold them up. With Onassis' death, the world lost one of its most extraordinary entrepreneurs. However, he left little legacy-no monuments, no...
Died. Aristotle Onassis, 69, multimillionaire Greek shipping magnate; of bronchial pneumonia; in Paris (see THE WORLD).
Müller's inflatable also is his workshop, where he is finishing plans for a bubble aviary for a zoo, a bubble house for a neighbor (cost: about $6,000), and was working on a bubble to fit over the helicopter on the deck of the late Aristotle...