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WHEN Financier Allan P. Kirby in 1961 lost control of Alleghany Corp., a huge holding company that controls a $6.5 billion rail and financial empire, those who did not know him well thought that he might retire to his 27-room mansion and clip coupons. After all, Kirby, now 71, was already worth at least $250 million through major holdings in Woolworth, I.T. & T., Phillips Petroleum, Manufacturers Hanover Trust and the New York Central Railroad. But Kirby is as stubborn as he is rich. He began a battle to regain control of Alleghany from the men who had wrested...
...film runs in absolute silence. When a machine gun fires, the frames jump in the same staccato. The film is divided into tweive titled episodes; the exposure as well as the focus fades emphatically with the concluding line of each episode. Alternating sequences of an early Dreyer film clip and Godard's modern celluloid contrast sharply with each other...
...Crimson showed amazing poise in coming from far back to beat a team which was shooting at a 56 per cent clip from the floor. This could be the best basketball team Harvard has produced in at least five years...
...royal Hawaiian). Fast growing Pancake Kitchens, Inc. this week opened its tenth "Aunt Jemima's Kitchen" at Bethpage, Long Island, plans to have 36 shops operating in the Eastern U.S. by 1967. International House, which has 63 shops across the country, is opening new Pancake Houses at a clip of one almost every week...
Agents in Overalls. For the royal visit, the Macmillan government mounted a security force that outdid even the Bulganin-Khrushchev welcome in 1956. On hand were 5,000 police, including plainclothesmen disguised in everything from morning coats to overalls. As the royal procession of carriages clip-clopped from Victoria Station, where Elizabeth greeted them, to Buckingham Palace, a woman burst from the crowd and shrieked: "Release my husband!" She turned out to be Mrs. Betty Ambatielos, 45, the English wife of Antonios Ambatielos, a Greek Communist serving a life term for his part in the cival...