Word: zellidja
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years had the French had so intriguing and labyrinthine a scandal as L'Affaire Lacaze (TIME, Feb. 2). At stake was whether handsome and politically influential Jean Lacaze, administrator of the vast Zellidja lead and zinc mines in Morocco, his entrancing sister, Domenica, and her great and good friend, Dr. Maurice Lacour, were involved in an unsuccessful plot to murder Domenica's adopted...
...gala opera performance in honor of visiting King Paul and Queen Frederika of Greece. Her close relationship with Domenica and Jean had business as well as social overtones: through her own Newmont Mining Corp., Maggie owned nearly half the stock in Domenica's and Jean's rich Zellidja mines. There were rumors that, dissatisfied with the long-term plans of the Zellidja management, she was planning to sell her shares...
Corruptible Wealth. By this time, Dominique had another devoted admirer, the architect and industrialist Paul Walter, whose revenues from the vast Zellidja lead and zinc mines in Morocco at one time represented 10% of the entire foreign revenue of France. They were married in 1941. A tall, tough, humorous man, Paul Walter had both ideas and imagination. He gave away millions of francs, endowed hospitals from Paris to Istanbul, established the Zellidja Foundation, which offered tiny cash grants to young students on their pledge to travel widely and live by their wits (TIME, Dec. 1). He also had -with apparent...
...knocked down by a Citroen. By the time he reached a hospital, with Dr. Lacour giving first aid, he was dead of a skull fracture. Walter left a fortune estimated at $142.5 million. His heir was Dominique, who immediately appointed her brother, Jean Lacaze, as administrator of the great Zellidja enterprises in Morocco...
...case, looked falteringly at the great interests, domestic and international, which might be affected by a misdirected or careless inheritance of the colossal Walter empire. And what of Dominique and the slippery Dr. Lacour? Both were vacationing at Marrakech in Morocco, 422 miles from the site of the great Zellidja mines. Everybody was talking at sixty to the minute. Jean Lacaze blamed Paulo, cried: "He is the shame of our family." Paulo Guillaume snapped irritably: "The billions don't interest me. What I want is to find my real mother." Preparing to return to Paris this week, Dominique Lacaze...