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...fountainhead of talent on which both of these groups depends is the provincial theater. In Britain there are 57 fulltime, professional repertory companies-twice as many as in the U.S., which is four times as populous and 40 times bigger. The regional theater is provincial in name only. The Bristol Old Vic, for example, now has had three of its productions running in repertory in London this season, next year will perform three Shakespeare works on Broadway...
...Communists. Their credentials are impeccably blue chip-Krupp, Volvo, Renault, Imperial Chemical Industries. By day, they hustle off to talk trade with ministers, plant managers and bureaucrats. By night, they cluster in the crowded bars and dining rooms of the hotels frequented mostly by foreigners: Warsaw's Bristol, Prague's Alcron, Bucharest's Athénée Palace. More than at any other time in the postwar era, Eastern Europe is a prime hunting ground for businessmen...
...replacement parts, engineers and mechanics cannibalize pieces of old farm and industrial equipment, trucks, and anything else they can find, and graft them onto other machines. Cubana Airlines has three four-engined Bristol Britannias at Havana airport. Often just one flies; the other two supply the spare parts. The few cars on Havana streets are rolling junk heaps - but precious junkheaps. "I could sell this thing for $1,400," boasts the proud owner of a broken-down 1948 Kaiser. When Havana's old General Motors buses finally began to give out, Castro imported a flashy new fleet from Czechoslovakia...
...drug companies have been taking eagerly to cosmetics. Bristol-Myers was one of the first to beautify itself by buying Clairol. Among recent mergers: Chas. Pfizer and Coty, American Cyanamid and Breck. Last week, in a reverse play that took both the drug and the cosmetics industries by surprise, Revlon, Inc., whose sales of more than $195 million in 1964 made it the second biggest U.S. cosmetics maker (after Avon Products), announced that it is buying a well-known U.S. drug company...
...near Orléans, Gaudier was a descendant of masons and stone carvers who had worked on the Chartres Cathedral. He began drawing in early childhood, did so brilliantly that at 14 he won a scholarship to London. Two years later, he won a second scholarship, this time to Bristol College, with funds to study art in Germany. All the while he sketched feverishly, often with a pen, explaining, "That prevents me from getting sentimental in the lines." Traveling through the Lowlands to Munich, he sold sketches "in the manner of Rembrandt." When the money ran out, he returned...