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...heart and crown went up across Kalverstraat, the city's Fifth Avenue. And huisvrouwen goggled from their windows at open-topped limousines bearing 300 royal guests through town for a little prenuptial sightseeing at the Rijkmuseum and the city's famed diamond-cutting centers. Europe's wealthiest reigning family, the 400-year-old House of Orange, was about to marry apple-cheeked Crown Princess Beatrix, 28, to West German Diplomat Claus von Amsberg...
...abiding quandary is financial. New York, the world's wealthiest city, has to borrow to meet its $4 billion annual budget, last week was contemplating a whole new set of taxes (see U.S. BUSINESS). Yet, as Weaver points out, "if you start talking about putting on extra taxes, you may further accentuate the trend toward businesses leaving the central city and make its financial plight even worse than it was before. The whole notion that the city can lift itself by its own bootstraps is a snare and a delusion." Thus cities have no recourse...
After Guillaume's death in 1934, Domenica married Jean Walter, whose vast Zellidja lead and zinc mines in Morocco made him one of France's wealthiest men. He and Domenica fleshed out the collection with some record-breaking purchases that would have met Guillaume's standards...
...Sabah transformed his Connecticut-sized sheikdom of Kuwait from a poverty-plagued sand pile at the head of the Persian Gulf into the world's most prosperous Arab state. With a national income of $30,000 a year per native family, his 468,000 people became the wealthiest on earth. The rea son: beneath the waterless desert lies one quarter of the world's oil. Though that fortune was all his own by dynastic right, Sheik Abdullah squandered none of it on sybaritic pleasures, used his billions in royalties to drag the once backward country from the 10th...
Many base their thinking about Rhodesia on their own experience with American Negroes. However there's a big difference between the American Negro and his Rhodesian cousin. First, America is the wealthiest nation in the world. Consequently the American Negro is better off than his African counterpart both educationally and financially. Second, the American Negro speaks English, while Rhodesian Africans learn English only as a second language. A language barrier makes the integration of the two races more difficult...