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...month apartment in a large building on Philadelphia's fashionable Rittenhouse Square and an art collection worth about $100,000. As a respected reporter for the Detroit Free Press, he had won an American Bar Association award. Most important, he was the millionaire grandson and a presumed heir of John S. Knight, 81, founder of the Knight-Rider Newspapers Inc., the chain that includes some 35 daily papers, such as the Detroit Free Press, the Miami Herald and the morning Philadelphia Inquirer, as well as the News. Unknown to most of his friends, the chunky bachelor was also...
...Heir Apparent. Abboud, short (5 ft. 6 in.), dark-haired and swarthy, succeeds Gaylord Freeman, 65, First Chicago's boss since 1969 and a power in U.S. banking for a generation. Widely respected as an international banker, Freeman was influential in the shaping of trade and monetary policy in the U.S. and abroad. He packed First Chicago's ranks with young aggressive managers, personally recruiting Abboud in 1958 at $5,600 a year v. $155,000 now. A former Marine who served in Korea and later earned a graduate degree from Harvard Business School, Abboud was promoted...
...gaze that seemed to come from some private world too secret to be spoken of. Marisa went on to live a glace confection of a life spun out of Vogue covers, yacht cruises, love affairs with the likes of David de Rothschild and, at the moment, Auto Heir Ricky von Opel. Early in Marisa's career, Vogue Editor in Chief Diana Vreeland announced: "Many faces are alluring, but hers is chic. She can wear a hat like nobody else." She could also take it off: she posed nude for both Vogue and Playboy. "Some of the greatest works...
...Assad has other motives in supporting the fedayeen, who are closely watched and restricted within Syria. The Syrians are also discreetly involved in trying to maintain peace in battered Lebanon (see following story) and they have renewed ties with King Hussein, whom Damascus has denounced at times as an "heir of treason" for his expulsion of the fedayeen from Jordan in the "Black September" of 1970. Jordan, Lebanon and parts of Palestine make up what was known as Greater Syria. Israelis, at least, wonder whether Assad, in his attempts to form an Eastern military front against Israel, is also eager...
...Nelson Rockefeller and Britain's Prince Philip, Spain's new King had just decorously assumed power during an official anointing ceremony at the Church of San Jerónimo in Madrid. The façade of an orderly transfer of power from Francisco Franco to his designated heir was persuasively preserved, but a hundred questions were left hanging over the elaborate ritual of pomp and prayer...