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...history of California's business enterprise reads almost like a parody of a chamber-of-commerce oration. In 1904 an immigrant's son, Amadeo Peter Giannini, founded a poor man's bank in a San Francisco saloon. Today the Bank of America is the world's largest, with assets of $25 billion, 952 Stateside branches and 94 overseas, and a creditcard system used by 25 million worldwide subscribers. Another poor boy. Charles B. ("Tex") Thornton, who started out as a government clerk, is one of the pioneers of the conglomerates with his Litton Industries. It was California that sent...
Crime, as in other places, continues to rise in California. More than 5% of California's population was arrested last year on various charges. The rate of personal crimes of violence rose almost 18% in 1968. In San Francisco alone, there have been more than 109 homicides so far this year; forcible rape in September of this year has risen 101% over September...
THAT bit of advertising copy took up less than one-eighth of a page in the Sunday New York Times. But by 7:30 Monday morning, people were falling into line for a show so long awaited and so much talked about that advertising was almost superfluous. By noon, the line stretched along 51st Street, turned the corner at shuttered Lindy's onto Broadway, headed uptown, rounded the corner again and began backing up into 52nd Street. The first day of box-office take for Coco, which starts previews next week, was a record-breaking...
...become like the Statue of Liberty or something. Now that I've come to an age where they think I might disappear-they're fond of me." At her insistence, the theater is kept at a bone-chilling 60° for rehearsals. Last week, noticing that almost everyone in the cast was sniffling, she arrived one morning with a box of sweaters. Dumping them in her dressing room, she announced that they were for anyone who was cold...
...Almost every U.S. tourist overseas knows that the place to change money, pick up the mail from home and meet fellow travelers is American Express. Famed as they are, however, the American Express offices in Paris, Rome, Tokyo and just about every other capital have never been the company's big profit makers. For many years, Amexco was really not much more than a bank with a tourist front. Lately it has branched into two dozen other areas of business, to become a sort of department store of financial and travel-related services...