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...basic meat-and-potatoes information, the tourist must look elsewhere. If he is in range, the best guides to most of his needs are produced by the French tire factory, Michelin & Cie. The Michelin Guides cover most of Western Europe in four languages and in two series. Michelin Green is an excellent illustrated sightseeing guide, heavy on history. Michelin Red, whose annual ratings can make or break any leading restaurant in France, is the undisputed arbiter of the world's finest cuisine. Unfortunately, Michelin covers neither entertainment npr shopping, and is no help at all to the tourist wondering...
...punctilious picnicker and Sunday sailor who loves wine but hates corkscrews, Faye et Cie. of Mâcon, France, has put vin in a can for 99?, is now selling it in six-packs in supermarkets from Los Angeles to Boston. The imbiber's report: no sour grapes. The wine is Beaujolais, one of the few that should be drunk young, and canning arrests the aging process, whereas bottling prolongs...
...prize is Schneider & Cie., whose sales of $512 million last year came from its dominance of 40 companies with interests in mining, manufacturing, banking and real estate throughout Europe, Latin America, Canada and Australia. The leading figure in this family company is Liliane Schneider, who at 61 is tall, erect, smooth-skinned and almost as handsome as when she starred in such French film confections of the 1920s as The She-Goat with Golden Feet. Liliane married Heir Charles Schneider in 1931, started working at his side in 1942 and succeeded him as co-manager of Schneider after his death...
...Morgan & Cie. was obliged to abandon investment banking under a 1933 change in U.S. banking law, and disappeared entirely in the 1959 merger of its parent, J. P. Morgan & Co., with New-York's Guaranty Trust. The new firm, organized by a Morgan Guaranty overseas subsidiary in alliance with London's Morgan Grenfell and two Dutch investment banking houses, occupies the same quarters its predecessor did but will carry out quite different functions. Henceforth, Morgan & Cie. will concentrate less on millionaires, more on European subsidiaries of U.S. companies. The bank plans to help them list shares on European...
...Originally an abbreviation for compagnie, the Cie. of Morgan & Cie. is no longer so considered, and the firm's name is commonly pronounced "Morgan...