Felix Ermacora, 71, a leading Austrian law professor and United Nations expert on human rights, died Friday in Vienna of an undisclosed illness he contracted during a December visit to
Afghanistan.
Manny Fingerhut, 80, who started a company with his brother in 1948 to sell plastic car seat covers by mail and helped build Fingerhut Corp. into a multimillion-dollar business, died Thursday St. Louis Park, Minn. When he and his brother, William, started their company, they gave buyers 30 days to pay and persuaded suppliers to wait 60 days for their money. This arrangement gave them a positive cash flow almost from the beginning. The company now has annual revenues of about $2 billion. He stepped down as president when the company went public in 1970 and retired as chairman in 1978.