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...career. The other major characters also rise to true book size. As Robert Cohn, the unwanted, brooding Jew, Mel Ferrer is especially convincing. The fascinating quintet converging on Pamplona for the fiesta is rounded out by Errol Flynn (wonderful as boozy Mike Campbell, the happy-went-lucky bankrupt) and Eddie Albert (as Bill Gorton, everybody...
Died. Paul Joseph Neff, 72, longtime railroader who in 1956 led the sprawling, bankrupt Missouri Pacific Lines out of one of U.S. railroading's longest (23 years) and most prosperous receiverships, resigned as president last month to become board chairman; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in St. Louis...
...Stienta and, with an angry mob howling outside, they capitulated to the Communist terms. By last week most of the farmers in the district had done the same, despite the organized holders' Farm Association warning that all such individually signed agreements were void. The farmers were all but bankrupt. The valley workers had lost more in crop shares than they could hope to regain in years of unremitting effort with hoe and spade. But the Communists had won their strike and reaped their harvest of hate. Crowed the Italian party organ Unita: "We have entered a new phase...
...Broke. Poor financing did what the elements could not, and by 1888 Coleman was bankrupt. Borax Smith took over Coleman's mining properties, consolidated all his mines into the Pacific Coast Borax Co. and, to boost European sales, merged with a British chemical company headed by James Gerstley, father of present U.S. Borax President Gerstley. But Smith also overextended himself, also went broke. To pay creditors, he was forced to sell out his stock to Gerstley and other Britons with holdings in the new company, which eventually became known as Borax (Holdings) Ltd. Domination of U.S. borax mining passed...
...receiver of the bankrupt dictatorship is Provisional President Pedro Eugenio Aramburu, 54, a two-star general. His lot has been an economic migraine headache compounded by unending plots against him and dismaying political anxieties. Because he is unexcitable and firm, he has not only survived for 18 months but has also turned his nation around and faced it toward political and economic revival. Even more notably, he has made an articulate, reiterated, unequivocal promise to liquidate his own regime as well as Peron's, and give the government back to elected civilians...