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...most serious mistake that U.S. businessmen fall into is their habit of regarding Western Europe as a 51st state, forgetting that a product or business technique that goes over big in Memphis will not necessarily succeed in Munich. The Common Market notwithstanding, Western Europe is still composed of individual nations and sections that have widely different tastes and buying idiosyncrasies. Says Belgium's Marcel de Meirleir, a plant-location expert: "Americans just don't understand that, for instance, Rotterdam and Antwerp are commercially not just two different cities-they're different worlds...
...admit Jews. In the winter resorts of Florida and Arizona alone, there are 80 hotels that exclude Jewish-or Jewish-looking guests; 22 of them are in one city, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Nonetheless, B'nai B'rith's Anti-Defamation League reported at its 51st annual meeting in Manhattan last week that there has been a dramatic retreat from discriminatory practices over the past six years. Some 60% of the U.S. hotels that overtly excluded Jews in 1957 have now dropped such barriers. In New York State the league found only one "restricted" hotel, in the Adirondacks...
...Former Vice President Richard Nixon, celebrating his 51st birthday, said of his political role: "I'm staying not on the sidelines but in the thick of the battle." His main concern, he said, was to see that the G.O.P. gets the "strongest possible candidate," and to that end he was "prepared to make any sacrifice"-which most observers took to mean that he would give up his law practice and run. Meanwhile, the Gallup poll showed him leading all others as of now. >Before Washington's National Press Club, Michigan's Governor George Romney was asked...
...CUMMINGS-Downtown Gallery, 32 East 51st St. The poet and typographical eccentric was also a painter, but the influences of Van Gogh, Picasso and Kandinsky on the 40-odd paintings in this show suggest that Cummings put his most original ideas into print. Also at Downtown, some paintings by Ben Shahn done as set designs for Cummings' play HIM. Through...
...Ferreé brothers' fondest hope is that their sons-there are four of them-will some day run the family businesses not from the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico but from the 51st state of the U.S. Statehood for Puerto Rico would more than double the corporate tax bill that the Ferrés pay under the Commonwealth, but they argue that it would attract many new industries and set off a new Puerto Rican boom by removing any danger that the island may some day be caught up in Caribbean turmoil. Says Luis Ferré: "If you can sell...