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Among those indicted was Newsday's biggest target: Long Island's longtime Building Trades Boss (A.F.L.) William De Koning, "just about the richest labor leader in the world." who had got control of the raceway's three key unions (parimutuel clerks, police protection force, maintenance employees). De Koning's lawyer angrily placed the blame for his client's trouble, and gave Newsday the accolade it had waited for. Said he: "The bitter personal hatred of Union Organizer William De Koning by the managing editor of Newsday, Mr. Alan Hathway, has resulted . . . in scurrilous attacks...
Died. Hastings William Sackville Russell, 64, twelfth Duke of Bedford and one of Britain's richest men (his fortune was once estimated at $14 million); of a shotgun wound, apparently accidental, while hunting alone on his 12,000-acre Devon estate. An eccentric, fuzzy-minded pacifist, Bedford could, and often did, switch causes at the drop of an ideal. Having had enough of Bedford's muddled diatribes, the House of Lords once resolved that "the noble Duke no longer be heard." Ill at ease with most people, he often preferred the company of deer, bison and parakeets...
Since Harvard is the oldest, richest and in most ways best on American universities, inevitably it has the biggest literature. Perhaps too big, for the average Harvard man is not the type to go rummaging through several hundred volumes is search of material about his alma mater. Some of the best tidbits have been buried in otherwise dull reports or hidden as episodes in novels, waiting for someone to disinter them and compile an anthology...
...villages, that their henchmen have been known to test new rifles with peasants for targets. But four years ago, Mohammed el Abboud, the chieftain's only son, dared to challenge a Lebanese as powerful as himself: Hussein el Oweini, one of the new republic's richest men and a friend of the Prime Minister. Why, Mohammed el Abboud demanded, was el Oweini permitted to buy gold at a special government rate? In revenge, el Oweini persuaded one Suleiman el Ali to contest Mohammed's seat in the 1951 elections. The government, and el Oweini's money...
...golden change that has come over Brunei since then can be summed up in one word: oil. Brunei's Seria oilfield (300 wells), from which some 100,000 barrels of petroleum bubble each day out of the jungle floor directly into holds of waiting tankers, is today the richest oilfield in the British Commonwealth. In 1950 it earned Brunei $3,000,000. A year later the Sultanate's take jumped to almost $25 million. The money piled up in the bank, for, try as they might, the Bruneians could think of no way to spend it fast enough...