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...Rooks repaired his shattered psyche at a Swiss sanatorium, along lines that suggest the substance of the film and his ultimate redemption. Currently, he neither drinks nor smokes, lives in a Manhattan town house, and bristles with new film projects. He already has a contract with U.S. Distributor Walter Reade to film Hermann Hesse's mystical Siddhartha in India next January. "Hesse," says Rooks, "answers the three questions: Who am I? Why am I here? Where am I going? If I can make a film showing this, I can reassure people of the meaning of existence...
...Beverly Hills, Calif., smokers have been paying prices ranging from 32? to 45? in one four-block area. Chicagoans fork over anywhere from 35? to 50? for the same sort of butts. "It's all on the basis of what the traffic will bear," explains Los Angeles Tobacco Distributor Norbert Orens. "Cigarette prices are not pre-marked with a manufacturer's price, so it's easy...
...keep confidences." Then she put on her most searching demeanor and went prowling through the haunts of New York singles, posing as a lonely girl looking for a date. On a "Singles Weekend" at the Concord Hotel in the Catskills, her most gamesmanlike experience was with a young liquor distributor who, to build his image as a swinging single, had his room stocked with a case of champagne...
...Consolidated Foods Corp., the huge Chicago-based food processor and distributor, hopes to double its sales to $2 billion by 1975, is hungry for acquisitions to help it reach that goal. The latest possibility: New York-based Chock Full O'Nuts, a coffee-processing and luncheonette-chain operation (1966 sales: $48 million), which is holding merger talks with Consolidated. - Control Data Corp., a leading manufacturer of computer hardware, agreed to take over a well-matched mate: C-E-I-R Inc., a $22 million-a-year, Washington-based computer software outfit that provides data-processing services. Like much...
...former Herald Publisher Robert Choate considered selling out to the Globe, then changed his mind. Akerson, then the Herald-Traveler's assistant publisher, joined forces with Choate and newspaper and magazine distributor Harry Garfinkle, largest Herald-Traveler stockholder, to head off the sale. Moving up to the publisher's office, Akerson hired a science and medicine expert, expanded regional coverage, removed ads from the front page and hired new, younger reporters. He reversed the Traveler's circulation decline, but he never managed to eliminate a pollyanna tone that blunted the paper's point and pertinence. Says...