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...Verne, that sent the intrepid Brit off in that aircraft. Trivia, you say? But there was nothing trivial about the real-life fulfillment of what seemed to be quixotic fantasy last week in Northern Africa. In a 180-ft.-high balloon, a silvery dare in the air, two adventurers--Swiss psychiatrist Bertrand Piccard, 41, and British balloon instructor Brian Jones, 51--completed their tour of the world in 20 days. The stakes were different (a purse of $1 million, courtesy of Anheuser-Busch, as opposed to 20,000[pounds] in Verne), but their intent was the same. They sought...
Panelists gave presentations on recent class action lawsuits in three areas pertaining to the Holocaust: against Swiss banks for hindering Holocaust survivors from reclaiming property and for receiving gold looted by the Nazis; against insurance companies that sold life insurance policies in territories occupied by the Nazis; and against companies who used concentration camp labor...
Bromley Professor of Law Arthur R. Miller, a lawyer in the Swiss banks cases, then discussed the larger implications of the cases...
Minister and Deputy Head of the Task Force on Switzerland and the Second World War Lukas Beglinger, a participant in cases involving claims against Swiss banks; visiting professor of law Robert Braucher and Johnston Lecturer on Law Peter L. Murray '64-'65 also participated in the panel...
...allegedly stole information from a host of rivals without so much as a bug or a mole. Instead, according to a lawsuit filed last October by Johnston Industries, based in Columbus, Ga., one Milliken employee posed as a business-school student researching a paper, and another played a Swiss banker seeking investment opportunities. One alleged target, NRB Industries, has reportedly settled its case against Milliken. The $2 billion-a-year titan has denied the charges, but Johnston, a $330 million-a-year textile firm, claims it lost $30 million to the alleged skullduggery. "It defies logic," says president D. Clark...