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...worth is closer to $1,000,000 than it is to $300,000." Apart from his $50,000 annual pension from the Teamsters, Beck's income depends on a flourishing real estate business, which he conducts from the basement of the big, rambling Seattle home that he built with Teamster funds (later returned) and sold to the Teamsters Union for $163,000 ("I get by fine and dandy there...
...giant finance company. As he prospered. Mendoza took care of his own: as early as 1933 his workers were collecting on incentive plans and sharing company profits. Many employees now share annual profits equal to eleven months' salary. He has financed 700 low-cost workers' houses, built a marina for his Pertigalete cement-plant employees...
...Mendoza built the Children's Orthopedic Hospital in Caracas, supported it for months out of his own pocket. Other philanthropic works: five schools, scholarships and agricultural research. Recently, he promoted $6.000,000 in private capital to finance a low-cost housing project for poor Venezuelans. Mendoza served as a civilian member of the revolutionary junta that ousted Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez, but resigned in dismay four days after Vice President Richard Nixon was mobbed (TIME, May 26, 1958). "He is," says one high government official, "the first case of a Venezuelan capitalist with the modern...
...audience might well have frightened any composer out of his augmented triads: it consisted of 600 moppets between five and twelve. Children, so the theory goes, are the ideal connoisseurs of modern music, because they have no built-in esthetic prejudices, and last week Venice's prestigious International Festival of Contemporary Music paused in the midst of its strenuously avant-garde schedule to put the theory to the test. In the baroque Fenice Theater, the kids saw nine one-act Games and Fables for Children, composed on commission by a group of noted moderns...
Oakland's first students (60% in the top quarter of their high school classes) may find the experience a bit prickly. All must live off campus; no dormitories have yet been built. The school will have no fraternities, sororities, ROTC or remedial courses. The only athletics will be voluntary...