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Refugees reaching China have told stories of being singled out for property confiscation by the Vietnamese, whose dislike for the Chinese derives from ten centuries of rule by China (111 B.C.-A.D. 939). But others who have fled to Hong Kong, Malaysia and Thailand insist that Hanoi's expropriation policy, though painful, has been uniformly applied...
...fight they did. For what the London auction house of Sotheby Parke Bernet billed as the "sale of the century," dealers, museum directors and assorted collectors from all over the world converged on the British capital to join in a buying spree whose force startled even the more jaded veterans of the polished world of high-priced art. To be sure, nothing like the colossal 700-work collection of medieval ivories and enamels, old master paintings and drawings, Renaissance sculpture and impressionist paintings amassed by onetime German Leather Manufacturer Robert von Hirsch was likely to come on the block soon...
DIED. Jens Otto Krag, 63, twice Prime Minister of Denmark, whose personal crusade for European unity culminated in his country's vote to join the European Community in 1972; of a heart attack; in Jutland, Denmark. An economist and a Social Democrat, Krag became a Cabinet minister at 33, Prime Minister at 47. After Danes voted to join the Common Market, he shocked them by abruptly resigning. Said he: "The time I have used talking to newsmen I will now use for reading...
Last week, some 15 years later, the society took its first big step toward encouraging its iconoclastic objective. Dipping into the $300,000 left to it by Taylor, who died in 1973, the society honored six scientists with its first $2,500 awards. All are original thinkers whose doubting-Thomas attitude led to revolutionary developments in their fields...
...jumped from less than $1 in 1976 to $29 last week before a two-for-one split Friday. It has made a million dollars for each of 14 ground-floor investors from Montgomery; Mendel alone has stock profits of more than $5 million. Says Montgomery Investment Banker Nimrod Frazer, whose holdings are worth $335,000: "Kinder-Care is the biggest piece of capitalism that Montgomery has ever...