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...worth more than $1 billion, including funds from such corporate clients as General Foods, TRW and Hughes Aircraft. New Court's other owners include N.M. Rothschild & Sons in London, which represents the English branch of the family and is headed by Evelyn de Rothschild, 50, and the Rothschild Zurich bank, of which Swiss Cousin Baron Edmond de Rothschild is part owner...
...Rothschild man in New York City had previously directed the family's bank in Zurich, which grew from a paltry $2.5 million in 1968 to its present capitalization of more than $35 million. De Botton is currently investing heavily in sagging stocks of U.S. energy companies, especially those with large domestic reserves of oil and gas. He also plans to strengthen the firm's venture-capital thrust. Says he: "The U.S. is the prime market hi the world for startup, small and medium-size companies...
...probably war loot, and Topic Mimara kept it (where else?) in a Zurich bank vault, while he lived (where else?) in Tangier. It was stored with a mass of fakes and rubbish that he also wanted to sell to the Met. It was very expensive at $600,000, an unheard-of price for a medieval object 20 years ago. But as Hoving reasoned, with the delicate sense of public relations that would mark his career at the Met, "Medieval art might be accorded a certain cachet by the expenditure of a stratospheric sum." Other museums, especially British ones, were after...
...Cartier. The stunt was aimed at discouraging the lucrative rip-off of luxury goods through counterfeiting. The crushed timepieces, which will go on display in Cartier stores around the world, were phony renditions of the company's famous $650 Tank watch. They were nabbed en route from Zurich to Tijuana by alert U.S. Customs inspectors. Once in Mexico, the fakes could have been sold for $300 to $400 each...
...even that mark was destined to fall as the two old and unfriendly rivals continued their game of "Can you top this?" Just two days after Ovett exacted his revenge, Coe returned to the track, this time in Brussels. With his familiar Zurich "rabbit," American Tom Byers, setting the pace, Coe took more than a full second off Ovett's newborn mark, cutting through the balmy night in 3 min. 47.33 sec. As he had done in Zurich, Coe unleashed a terrific closing kick, taking the lead with some 500 meters (547 yds.) left. When it was over...