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Caroline Coleman grew up in the privileged world of trust funds, Virginia boarding schools and Swiss finishing schools. It is a world, she claims, where using drugs is as common as clipping coupons. "Most of the people I knew snorted coke and took pills. You just couldn't make a move without ammunition." Coleman, now 28, says she began sampling marijuana, hash, amphetamines and barbiturates when she was a freshman at an exclusive girls' school in Virginia horse country. The status drug among the teen-age girls, however, was clearly cocaine. "If you had a little thing...
Pharaon persuaded Swiss authorities to file a criminal indictment for fraud against Tannoury. Pharaon's advisers suspect that the Gaddafi "offer" and the Venezuelan connection were a hoax. Moreover, they believe Tannoury probably never matched Pharaon's investment and may have simply pocketed the sheik's $14 million...
DIED. Igor Markevitch, 70, exacting Russian-born, Swiss-reared conductor who began as a composing prodigy-dubbed Igor II, he was expected to follow in Stravinsky's footsteps-but in 1930 picked up the baton and became best known as a master of conducting precision; after a heart attack; in Antibes, France. Markevitch advocated the use of standardized gestures on the podium, saying, "Baton technique is to a conductor what fingers are to a pianist. Certain movements produce certain sounds...
...Burgess's eyes, Freud is a Victorian Job, plagued by the doctrinal defections of Carl Jung, Otto Rank and his own daughter Anna. The therapist's love of cigars, which contribute to the carcinoma that kills him, is analyzed by Jung. The Swiss tells Freud's mother that Sigmund's smoking is "sheer devotion ... to you, gnadige Frau...
Perkin-Elmer certainly had no intention of doing that last March, when the company received a routine purchase order for the machines from Favag S.A., a medium-size electronics company in the Swiss watchmaking town of Neuchâtel. Recalls Perkin-Elmer Vice President James P. Gregory: "We are fully aware of the importance of this equipment. We did not know Favag, so we reported the order to U.S. Customs, to the Commerce Department and to the FBI." After months of investigation by U.S. agencies, the sale was approved by the Commerce Department; the Micraligns were snipped to Switzerland...