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After the war, the Swiss themselves took revenge for the embarrassment Roessler had caused them: when he was accused of spying on NATO for the Russians, the Swiss government locked Roessler up for one year. Virtually penniless, he died in 1958; his death went unremarked by the Allies he had tried to serve. Yet the facts of his ring's existence and its ways of operating, as reported by Authors Accoce and Quet, are grudgingly accepted as true by Swiss, West German and British intelligence personnel. Even Allen Dulles, who operated for the OSS in Switzerland during...
Boyd grew up to the tune of poverty. The son of a dirt farmer who lost his Blencoe, Iowa, spread during the Depression and died penniless, he first earned spending money by borrowing the family horse and hiring himself out to other farmers. At 17 he headed for Omaha, studied accounting while scouring floors and cleaning tables for board and tuition, got his first job as an accounting clerk with General Motors Acceptance Corp. Later, after Boyd served as a Nash sales executive, he ran his own Nash, then Buick dealerships in Sioux City, Iowa, and Alliance...
...Williams, the fight marked the end of the road; face bruised, one eye puffed nearly shut, five stitches in his cut lip, he announced that he was quitting the ring. He is leaving it the same way he found it-penniless. His share of the purse and ancillary rights may total $160,000, but cuts, taxes, and debts will probably take...
Italy may be prosperous, but it is also almost penniless-thanks mostly to a coin shortage that has put small-change business transactions on a barter basis...
Tjurs doesn't mean to pay a single cruzeiro. The penniless son of immigrants from Russia, he quit school early, went to work at jobs ranging from driving hacks to guiding tours. About all he remembers of his formal education is that "I learned how to add and subtract and multiply." That apparently was enough. Today, at 65, Tjurs has gathered together Brazil's biggest hotel chain; among his six hotels are Rio's 220-room Excelsior Copacabana, Sao Paulo's 17-story Jaragua and the 420-room Nacionál in Brasilia. All of this...