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...aerotrain is 49-year-old Engineer-Designer Jean Berlin, who in August 1965, after eight years at the drawing board, received a $600,000 grant from France to build and test his invention on a 31-mile stretch of unused railroad track between the villages of Gometz and Limours. Bertin, who already had the backing of a $1,000,000 company made up of 18 industrial giants such as the French National Railroads, Nord Aviation and Hispano-Suiza, ripped up the standard-gauge track between the two somnolent towns, replaced it with a concrete monorail shaped-in profile-like...
Violence was a favorite topic. Denying that comics corrupt the young, Professor Fausto Bongioanni declared: "The comics prepare a child for life. Let us accept the facts; life is not sweet." "I have found a moral decline in Walt Disney's comics," announced Professor Giovanni Bertin. "The positive character Mickey Mouse has been replaced by the negative Donald Duck. The emergence of an evil Donald Duck is a bad omen for American mores...
...Onto the board of New York's embattled Alleghany Corp. went Bertin Clyde Gamble, 64, the ex-Minnesota farm boy who heads the $140 million-a-year Gamble-Skogmo merchandising chain. Gamble, who recently bought 1,500,000 shares of Alleghany stock from Texas wheeler-dealers John Murchison and his brother Clint Jr., could yet emerge as the big winner in the feud between the Murchisons and New Jersey Financier Allan P. Kirby, who still owns 33% of Alleghany's common. Like Kirby and the Murchisons, Gamble is interested in Alleghany because it owns 47% of Minneapolis...
...Wall Street mystery was solved when Bertin C. Gamble, 63, admitted to being the anonymous bidder who offered $40 a share for 470,000 shares of Chicago's General Outdoor Advertising. Elusive Bert Gamble, who built up the Gamble-Skogmo chain of auto accessory and appliance shops (380 stores, 2,000 dealers), now specializes in buying companies and reselling them at a handsome profit. Backed up by $45 million in cash from the 1960 sale of Gamble-Skogmo Inc.'s interest in Western Auto Supply, Gamble says he wants control of North America's biggest outdoor advertising...
...adjust their pace. The blocking did not help surmount this difficulty, though broad gestures and general verve kept even the janitors interested. The minor roles were handled with extreme finesse. Who can forget the antics of the lovers Acaste and Clitandre with their feathered hats. And Pierre Bertin as Oriente displayed the control, humor and timing that has established the reputation of the French theater...