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...moved by San Francisco sentimentalism as much as desire for profit, he bought the famed Hotel Mark Hopkins for $12 million. "I think," says Lurie, "it's the finest hotel in the world." ?A husky Virginian who knows his way around Washington as well as Wall Street, Carter Burgess, 45, last week moved up from the presidency to the chairmanship of widely diversified American Machine & Foundry Co., succeeding Morehead Patterson, who died fortnight ago. His acquaintance with both places should be useful: AMF faces an antitrust accusation of conspiring to restrain competition in the bowling industry, and a slowdown...
...kinship relationship of the older person has changed," says Professor Emeritus Ernest Watson Burgess of the University of Chicago. "My grandfather lived on a farm. His sons would come to him for advice about farming. Daughters would ask grandmother about how to raise their children. Now the son goes to the agricultural agent for advice, and the one thing the daughter knows is-she isn't going to raise her children the way her mother raised...
...Hope, Pa., Bucks County Playhouse: Burgess Meredith directs A Ton of Bricks, a Navy comedy by Max Wilk and W. J. Gordon...
Meanwhile, the pair seemed to be sitting tight in Moscow, wearied by all the sudden interest. "Oh, tell them I've gone to Cuba," was all that questioners got out of the man who is known to his friends as Jim Andreevich Burgess...
Ajar Door. Speaking in the Legislative Council last week. Colonial Secretary Claude Burgess said Hong Kong's 3,250,000 population (a density of 8,200 per sq. mi.) was "now dangerously swollen'' and required a restrictive immigration policy to maintain the present standard of living. In sum. the speech suggested that Hong Kong will get tougher on the refugees but will continue to leave the door slightly ajar. One telling point made by Burgess: the refugee problem is one that "no country in the world is in practice willing to share with us." Over the past...