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...other relatives and associates will assist her in managing her father's byzantine business operations. After Alexander's death in a plane crash at age 24 two years ago, Onassis had been deeply concerned about who would mind his stores; he had urged Christina to marry Shipping Heir Peter Goulandris, 30, and reportedly the pair pledged at his deathbed to wed later this year...
...contrast to the jaunty Stans, a subdued and sorrowful LaRue last week learned the penalty he must pay for conspiring to obstruct justice in the Watergate coverup. The mild-mannered Mississippi oil heir had admitted taking part in the payoffs to the burglars and had testified for the Government in the trial that led to the convictions of H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, Robert Mardian and Mitchell. LaRue, a former aide to Mitchell at Nixon's re-election committee, was sentenced by Federal Judge John J. Sirica to six months in jail...
...marriage had dynastic overtones, but in the late 1950s Onassis struck up a long-playing romance with tempestuous Opera Diva Maria Callas. In 1960, Tina sued for divorce, after having given Onassis a son and heir, Alexander, and a daughter, Christina. Onassis' affair with Callas lasted nearly a decade, but by 1968, according to a friend, he was passionately in love with Jackie Kennedy. Their marriage prompted banner-and not always friendly-headlines throughout the world. JACKIE, HOW COULD YOU? asked Stockholm's Expressen...
...writer of those pieces never wasted a line. The only thing he seemed to squander was his life. The heir to a relentlessly middle-class colonial tradition, Orwell gained a scholarship to Eton, then made a false start as a policeman in Burma. Out of that five-year catastrophe came the embittered radical who could dissect his emotions and his country with pitiless surgery...
Next year's provisions will permit employees older than 55 to name as heir who will receive the employee's pension benefits if he dies before retiring