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...Trace your path from Crimson President to Disney producer...
...which ruled Argentina until 1983, Ana has observed, many of the babies born in prison were put up for adoption. It is possible that Alicia's Gaby may be a child of desaparecidos, the "missing ones" (there were more than 9,000 of them) who simply vanished without a trace during the state's infamous "dirty war" on alleged subversives...
...local rest house, formerly the chummery, or bachelor's quarters, of the Bombay-Burma Trading Co., still serves roast beef each night at 7 sharp. An old porter asks a visitor where he lives. England, comes the answer. "Rule Britannia," intones the man without a trace of irony. "Britannia rules the waves...
Much of Aquino's time, however, was taken up trying to trace the Marcos fortune. Jovito Salonga, head of the Good Government Commission, charged with recouping Marcos' hidden wealth, has estimated the deposed leader's assets at between $5 billion and $10 billion. Some $800 million is located in a Swiss bank account. Approximately $350 million more is apparently tied up in five New York properties, including Manhattan's Crown Building and Lindenmere, a Long Island estate. In Texas, Marcos allegedly controls $13 million worth of property in Tarrant County, and has parcels of land valued at $19.2 million...
...duchess, née Bessie Wallis Warfield of Baltimore, came from two of those old Maryland and Virginia families that like to trace their ancestry to William the Conqueror. But the Warfields' relative social prominence was not matched by wealth, especially after Wallis' father died when she was only a few months old. She married her first husband, Earl Winfield Spencer Jr., a Navy officer, in 1916. Intensely jealous, he occasionally locked her in her room; they were divorced in 1927 after years of separation. The following year she married Ernest Simpson, a quiet, scholarly, American-born Briton, also recently divorced...