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...purpose. The Common Market summit, for instance, seemed headed for disaster-a destination it may eventually reach anyway -until Schmidt flew to London. Apparently moved by Harold Wilson's argument that Britain is being unfairly treated in the Common Market budget, Schmidt hinted that the Market's richest members, meaning West Germany and France, might ante up more.* He then encouraged the Paris dinner between his old friend Giscard and Wills son so that the British Prime Minister ' could try to convince the French President as well. Apparently, Wilson was not convincing, and British and French spokesmen...
...Haroldson Lafayette) Hunt died of an undisclosed illness hi a Dallas hospital last week at the age of 85, he had amassed an estimated personal fortune of $2 billion, putting him on a par with J. Paul Getty and Howard Hughes as one of the world's richest men. The exact extent of his wealth is unknown because Hunt never invested hi anything that he could not own outright, and he had no outside stockholders in the businesses he did control. Claiming to have no interest in money itself, he once remarked: "Money . . . is just something to make bookkeeping...
...death list included two former Premiers, twelve former provincial governors, 18 generals and a grandson of Haile Selassie. Also executed were Prince Asrate Kassa, 56, who once ranked second in power (after the Emperor), and Ras Mesfin Sileshi, probably the country's second richest man (after the Emperor). Haile Selassie, who had spent two months this year confined to a mud hut at Fourth Army Division headquarters in Addis Ababa, remained under house arrest last week at the Grand Palace...
...also visited several communes, including a couple of days at Tachai, the model commune. It's not the model commune because it's richest but because its people built dams and tunnels to hold off floods and filled in ravines pretty much without benefit of machinery--they're finishing up a new aqueduct at the moment. Then when most of their work was washed away in a flood they refused to accept state aid in rebuilding it, so Chairman Mao said, "In agriculture we learn from Tachai," and it became the model commune. Its weatherbeaten vice president said it gets...
...with a twist. Robbins' hero, Baydr Al Fay, is really a Jew-a changeling, by Allah! At 40, he is one of the world's richest men, traveling constantly between banking centers to invest Arab oil revenues. Like other Robbins figments, Baydr is also an international satyr whose feats are topped only by those of his insatiable California-born wife. (Yes, Hollywood is at work on the movie...