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Bessie Goldberg, 62, wife of a real estate man, lay on the living-room floor of her Dutch-colonial home in Belmont, a well-to-do Boston suburb. Around her neck was a nylon stocking that had been stripped from her left leg. She was dead. Headlined the Boston Herald: HOUSEWIFE TENTH STRANGLE VICTIM...
...Army Vice Chief of Staff, Minister of Trade and Industry, and Chairman of the Burma Oil Co., Aung Gyi was Ne Win's No. 2 man and heir apparent. The son of a well-to-do Chinese textile merchant and a Burmese woman, he proved himself a canny diplomat both in the 1960 negotiations that fixed Burma's borders with Red China and in last month's talks with Japan that produced $170 million in additional World War II reparations and loans. Despite his insistence that "I have no training in economics," he built a modest army...
...gibes, "it is the 'in' thing to die of a coronary thrombosis at 40." This is a fate Brooks himself is doing his best to avoid. Though competitors grudgingly credit him with singlehanded renovation of the crumbling London neighborhoods of Pimlico and Chelsea by luring back well-to-do buyers. Brooks puts in only a couple of days a week in his London offices, spends the rest of his time enjoying life with his family in an eight-bedroom country house that Britain...
Baggs is the most individual of the bunch. He is a Southerner by birth, son of a well-to-do Atlanta Ford dealer, but his convictions know no geography. His outspoken views on the race issue have antagonized Floridians from Jacksonville to Key West. "There is nothing much but anguish," wrote Baggs in a typical News editorial, "when you feud with so many of your readers and friends. But there are times when you have no other choice. Which brings us quickly to the practice of enforced segregation in the public schools of Florida. It is wrong." His opinions pull...
Power-for himself and Italy-might have been his goal, but not immense wealth. A policeman's son, he made himself independently well-to-do in his 30s as a chemical manufacturer. He lived simply with his wife in a Rome hotel, drew expenses for his needs, donated his $30,400 salary to an orphanage. Without his intense one-man rule, E.N.I., which claims to be profitable but operates under a load of heavy debts, may well be in for difficult times...