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...than arm's length. Strictly speaking, there are no characters at all, except Author-Director Robbe-Grillet, Producer Samy Helfon and a female assistant, played by Robbe-Grillet's wife Catherine. These three gather in a compartment of the Trans-Europ Express en route from Paris to Antwerp...
...Florida since the early 1900s, is a partner in a phosphate mine in Senegal, West Africa, has a large share of a $70 million Indian phosphate-fertilizer plant scheduled to begin production this summer. And, I.M.C. pointedly is building the world's largest phosphoric-acid plant in Antwerp. Combined with the company's other processing plants around the world, this was the sort of outlet Madrid wanted...
...take, how high the peaks will soar. For their models, they look to their fathers, older brothers, a teacher, a figure plunked from history-an Alexander or a Gehrig, a Shaw or a Morgan, a Renoir or a Luciano. for Raoul Levy, born of a Russian-Jewish family in Antwerp, educated there and at the London School of Economics, an R.A.F. veteran of World War II, there never seems to have been much doubt. He wanted to be a Zanuck...
...longer view, even though U.S. investment has reached a point where, for example, Americans control 30% of Europe's automaking, 50% of the West German oil industry and 90% of the French computer industry. Obviously, new plants mean jobs. G.M. expects to hire 6,000 for its Antwerp plant and another 3,000 workers for the transmission plant at Strasbourg. Beyond this, the U.S. demand for money now seems to be having a salutary effect on European capital markets...
...Antwerp has been blessed by history, geography and its neighbor's good roads. The single superhighway leading from the city fortunately connects with the German autobahn, and excellent canal and rail links tie Antwerp to the rest of Europe. Compared with its bigger competitors for investment, Belgium is more centrally located than Italy or Britain, more politically friendly than France, and farther from the Iron Curtain than West Germany. In the hunt for new business, Antwerp since 1956 has spent $100 million to clear industrial sites and double its harbor capacity, plans to have the port ready...