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JOHNSON'S WAX. In the copper-colored bowl suspended over a limpid pool, 500 people at a clip see the 17½-min. movie, To Be Alive! Francis Thompson and Alexander Hammid traversed three continents to produce it, and the triple-screen montage is fast, fresh...
Leaving Delhi last week, a special train crawled slowly through a yellow haze of summer dust. In one coach, heaped with red roses, jasmine and white lotus blooms, stood a large silver-and-copper urn holding Nehru's ashes.*Reaching Allahabad, Nehru's home town, late that night, the urn was carried in procession through the predawn coolness to the riverbank and loaded aboard a white-painted amphibious "duck." The boat moved out to a spot where the muddy brown current of the sacred Ganges is joined by the green water of the Jumna River. Airplanes circled overhead...
...Question of Need. If a boycott is to work, it must be supported by the U.S. and Britain. Their purchases of such items as gold, copper and diamonds account for one-third of South Africa's trading income. They oppose the boycott, saying publicly that it would hurt black workers more than the white businessmen, but confiding privately that they need South Africa as both a supplier and buyer. The U.S. and Britain have banned arms shipments to South Africa, but in April British Labor Leader Harold Wilson, an Oxford-trained economist, questioned the wisdom of a full-scale...
...president of New York's First National City Bank (in charge of oil matters). He joined Cities Service just six years ago, became president a year later. The ninth biggest U.S. oil company (1963 sales: $1.2 billion) has lately diversified into businesses as varied as plant foods and copper mining, and under Warren it will continue to explore new fields...
...copper mines of Chile are a natural proving ground for the boss of Anaconda Co.-Charles M. Brinckerhoff, 63, who last week was promoted from president to the newly created post of vice chairman and chief executive officer. He succeeds Clyde E. Weed, 74, who stays on as chairman. A Columbia-trained mining engineer, Brinckerhoff spent 23 of his 38 years with Anaconda supervising its Chilean mines, the source of 70% of the output and 80% of the profits of the world's second largest copper producer (after Kennecott). Among his honors: the Bernardo O'Higgins Order...