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...near Port Antonio at the island's eastern end, where the vegetation is lushly tropical from the rainfall trapped by the towering Blue Mountains, is the picturesque San San section, where the Aga Khan's Uncle Sadruddin has pitched a tent, along with Steel Baron Heinrich Thyssen and a collection of Swedish shipping moguls...
...many well-heeled Germans have fled to more pastoral retreats such as Switzerland, where the government reported last week that they had bought 50% of all real estate sold since January 1961. Swiss retreats have long been favored by such Top Germans as Steel Baron Heinrich von Thyssen, whose Lugano villa houses an art collection that has become a big tourist attraction. But many of the country's plushest pads now belong to West Germany's top movie stars, including Curt Jürgens and Caterina Valente. After Nadja Tiller settled into a handsome hillside villa in Ticino...
When it comes to running things, Goer-gen seems taller. The son of a small can dy shop proprietor, Goergen started out as an accountant, and in the aftermath of World War II was named director of a small fragment of the prewar Thyssen steel empire. Within ten years he had built it into Germany's second largest steel company - only to be booted out with $600,000 in severance pay when aris tocratic Frau Amelie Thyssen, the com pany's largest stockholder, decided that the brash Goergen was not her dish...
Ultimately, the "leaders" of the International Set are those with money who do the most with it. Among the most conspicuous: Baroness Heinrich von Thyssen (nee Fiona Campbell-Walter); Rosita Winston, one of the world's best-dressed women and a part Cherokee Indian; Donna Marella Agnelli of Turin, whose husband's grandfather founded the Fiat automobile company; Rosie Warburton Gaynor Chisholm, whose grandparents were Old Guard Philadelphians, and whose mother married William K. Vanderbilt...
...Harvardman ('54) Sadri, half brother of the late Aly Khan, were separated for nearly two years-she fluttering around Paris, he roaming from Arab sheikdoms to Congolese refugee camps for the U.N. Sadri's lawyer, aware that it cost German-born Steel Heir Baron Heinrich von Thyssen more than $1,000,000 and a French chateau to shed Nina in 1957, was on his guard. Said he: "We are well armed against any such demand...