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...invaded in 1941. His father is not only a self-made millionaire in the buccaneer Onassis mold, but also a former professor of law at the Athens Graduate School of Economics and Business Science. Alexander, an avid collector of antique Rolls-Royces, is a shrewd businessman who graduated from Zurich University with an honors degree in mechanical engineering. Regarded as a forceful, ambitious pragmatist by his business associates, he developed his family's ultramodern shipbuilding facilities at Eleusis. "Christina wanted a hardboiled, tough decision maker," said one of her friends last week, "and that is what...
Mysterious Functions. Certainly, the roles of some agents are shadowy. Khashoggi is an example. Another is Frank DeFrancis, a Washington lawyer. He set up the Zurich-based Economic & Development Corp. in 1971 to promote sales of the F-5 round the world; it operated on an understanding that Northrop would ask no questions about what it does to obtain contracts. Northrop is committed to pay EDC a sum estimated as $3.1 million, representing commissions on aircraft already sold...
...Campari and soda on the rocks, extols the virtues of the Exocet missile to a cadre of entranced Brazilian admirals. In a Persian Gulf capital, a U.S. military attache prepares a top-secret memo listing the weaknesses of the host country's armed forces. In the lobby of a Zurich hotel, a trader who arranges sales of slightly used rifles and mortars ?a "bedroom dealer" in the jargon of the trade?haggles softly with the representative of a Third World guerrilla movement...
Fuseli was actually neither Turk nor Jew, but Swiss; he was born Johann Heinrich Fiissli in Zurich in 1741, the son of a portrait painter. By 1825, when he died, he had become one of the most distinguished exiles in English art history; he was even buried next to Sir Joshua Reynolds in St. Paul's. Last week, to mark the 150th anniversary of his death, a show of more than 200 Fuselis-oils, engravings and drawings-opened at London's Tate Gallery...
...account of Fuseli's ambition: he wanted "to render the most dramatic episodes of Shakespeare in the pictorial language of Michelangelo." Fuseli was not a painter when he went to England in 1764, but a young Zwinglian minister whose liberal ideas had driven him out of Zurich. His intransigence grew with time, ripening into the melancholy sarcasm that was one of his more noted traits. "He is everything in extremes-always an original," wrote Fuseli's close friend, the physiognomist Lavater. "His look is lightning, his word a thunderstorm; his jest is NATIONAL PORT death, his revenge hell...