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DIED. PAUL SACHER, 93, Swiss pharmaceutical tycoon and conductor; in Basel, Switzerland. By the time Sacher married Maja Stehlin--the heir to the Hoffmann-La Roche drug empire--in 1934, he had already founded a musical institute and a chamber orchestra. Even as he commissioned many new works, Sacher oversaw the growth of Hoffmann-La Roche, manufacturer of Valium, for nearly 60 years...
...FAYED failed to win British citizenship (again) this month, it hasn't impeded his plans to spend eternity in the U.K. Fayed, whose son Dodi died in the car crash that also killed Princess Diana, owns the London department store Harrods. Last week Fayed's spokesman said the Anglophile tycoon would like to have himself mummified after death, then have his coffin placed in a dome at the top of the store. The spokesman also said, hopefully in jest, that Fayed would like to have "a hundred clones of himself made so he can come back to haunt the British...
DIED. LEON HESS, 85, former oil tycoon and owner of the New York Jets; in New York City. Hess, whose net worth last year was estimated by Forbes to be $720 million, bought in to the team in 1963, later becoming sole owner...
...Russians may launch an obscure Welsh-born, U.S.-based garbage-treatment tycoon into space--if he can come up with the $100 million needed to keep Mir aloft through 2000. The Russian government announced this year that it will have to wean Mir of funding this fall in order to pay for completion of the Russian modules for the International Space Station. So Energiya, the state corporation that built Mir, created a subsidiary to raise hard currency. That's when PETER LLEWELLYN, 51, head of Microlife, a Minnesota company specializing in waste disposal, heard his calling. Paunchy and with...
When good things are done by rich people, we tend to wonder why. Dallas Cowboys tycoon Jerry Jones, who says he has people highlight passages in books for him so that he doesn't have to read any, gave $1 million to the Library of Congress last Wednesday. Financier George Soros spent some $2 million last year toward making marijuana legal for medical use. Now comes leveraged-buyout mogul Ted Forstmann, who together with Wal-Mart heir John Walton is spending $100 million to give 40,000 scholarships to disadvantaged children who want an alternative to public school. This week...