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When financial woes forced the family-owned Krupp empire to become a public corporation, lawyers drew up a unique contract in which the late Alfried Krupp's son and sole heir, Arndt von Bohlen und Halbach, renounced his rights to a $500 million inheritance. In return, Arndt, for the rest of his life, would receive 2½% of the sales from Krupp's Rossenray coal mine, one of the richest in the Common Market. This year that stipend will amount...
...whales may survive to be 75. But most of those that escape the whalers' harpoons will succumb to what Dr. Scheffer suggests are their real enemies: "The small, erosive, unimpressive costs of living . . . broken teeth and bones, poisonous foods, and all the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir...
...late 1870s, the ruling Kabaka welcomed the Anglican and Catholic missionaries who followed Explorer Henry Morton Stanley. But after the old king's death, the ruler's dissolute heir did not; the young man resented the fact that his Christian pages refused his homosexual advances. Finally, egged on by a jealous Prime Minister, the Kabaka determined to crush the new religion, and in one bloody, 15-month period, beginning in 1885, ordered the murders or executions of 22 Catholics and at least 23 Anglicans. Paul declared the Catholic martyrs saints...
...week underscored the irony of the liberals' present eclipse. In 1961 John Kennedy set for the U.S. the goal of landing men on the moon by 1970; Richard Nixon, the man Kennedy defeated, presided over the attainment of that goal in 1969. By mischance, Senator Edward Kennedy, the heir to an important part of U.S. liberal leadership, found his political future seriously in doubt...
...have seemed rather prim to the rowdy French art students who studied with him at the Academie Julien. Thanks to his Methodist upbringing, Tanner refused to touch wine at first. However, he fitted in well enough with American expatriate artists and connoisseurs. He became fast friends with Department Store Heir Rodman Wanamaker and Patent Medicine Heir Atherton Curtis, both of whom collected his work. In 1899, he married a pretty white singer from San Francisco...