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...Michel Christian Bergerac. Tall, suave and mustached, he is a French-born Basque who looks and talks (in Gallic-flavored English) like the kind of smoothy who should be running a cosmetics empire. But he started out as an electric power salesman, trained as a manager in the ITT cauldron, and rose to head that conglomerate's European operations, a job that taught him about acquisitions, finance, and the making and marketing of just about anything. At Revlon, while continuing to broaden the product line and promoting some new merchandising ideas, Chairman Bergerac, now 46, talks a language that...
...Israeli-Egyptian political talks. Alfred Leroy ("Roy") Atherton Jr., 56, Cyrus Vance's Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, deserves equal praise for sacrificial obedience. After 30 years in the foreign service, 14 of them dealing directly with the ever boiling Middle East cauldron, Atherton would have preferred a more relaxed ambassadorial assignment. As Author Edward R.F. Sheehan said of Atherton in his chronicle of shuttle diplomacy, The Arabs, Israelis, and Kissinger, "He yearns to escape Washington, to win a quiet embassy where he can glimpse the Mediterranean, take naps in the afternoon, enjoy the laughter...
This weekend's Ivy basketball action may well prove the cauldron from which the league champion will emerge. Frank McLaughlin and his cagers are looking to stir up the Ivy basketball potpourri as much as they did last Saturday night when they threw the league-leading Penn Quakers into the mulligatawney...
California's Soledad Prison is a spot of hell in the middle of a Garden of Eden. Located on 960 acres in the verdant Salinas Valley, the penitentiary housing 2,400 inmates is a cauldron of latent racial violence. In its 26-year history, 18 inmates have slaughtered one another in the name of black or white supremacy. Last week, as part of a continual effort to promote racial harmony, prison authorities held a concert by Gospel Singer Andrae Crouch, a black. TIME Correspondent James Wilde attended. His report...
...years afterward, Cao's countrymen traded and established settlements near the river's mouth. But they did not go too far inland; 100 miles upstream lay a series of 32 cataracts now known as Livingstone Falls. A stretch of white water, appropriately named the Cauldron of Hell, stopped early explorers as effectively as if it were the edge of the earth...