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From the middle 1850s when, as a schoolboy in Switzerland and an undergraduate at Göttingen University, he began picking up fragments of stained glass from ruined churches, buying works of art was his obsession. Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, rare drawings, incunabula (literally, things from the cradle, or books printed before 1501), bookbindings, historical documents and letters-these poured into his vaults, sucked from Europe as by a vacuum cleaner by the limitless power of his funds. After 1906 the collection was housed in the Morgan Library, a Manhattan palazzo designed by McKim, Mead & White that is itself...
...then helped him to pay off his campaign debts. Vesco also put Sears on a $60,000-a-year retainer as part-time counsel and a director of his International Controls Corp., which had taken over Investors Overseas Services, the rickety mutual-fund empire glued together in Switzerland by Bernard Cornfeld...
Today, Fuqua Industries' annual revenue is slightly under $500 million, and the conglomerate deals primarily in leisure-time fields. Fuqua, however, spends little leisure time himself. He works seven days a week "because I like it," he says. A few years ago, Fuqua and his wife went to Switzerland for a two-week vacation. He was back in his office in three days, announcing, "When you've seen one castle you've seen them...
...since his deportation from the U.S.S.R. last month, Alexander Solzhenitsyn has broken his self-imposed silence. He did so in an apocalyptic 15,000-word open letter to the leaders of his country, which was written last September in Moscow and recently revised while he was in exile in Switzerland. It has remained unpublished until now. In the letter the Nobel-prizewinning writer lays out his program for the salvation of the Russian people. He appeals to the Kremlin masters to abandon the entire basis of their power: Marxist ideology, industrial development, nuclear supremacy and imperial domination of other nations...
...does not play favorites. Tabarly, a navy commander, was barely halfway to Capetown when his titanium mainmast collapsed. By radio, Tabarly ordered a new spar. Under jury rig, he headed for Rio, 1,200 miles away, to pick it up. The 82-ft. mast, fabricated in Switzerland, had to be cut in two to fit into a French military jet. Meanwhile Blyth, a former paratroop sergeant, was learning that $350,000 worth of sleek boat does not necessarily go fast when manned by a crew of paratroopers with little sailing experience...