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My one major reservation concerned the choice of background music, which was decidedly off-key with the rest of the production. For a play as purely American as this, surely something more appropriate could have been found than the exotic Brazil-inanities of Villa-Lobos.
Today Milan and Rome between them boast eight supermarkets. Biggest operators: the Italian-owned Supermercato S.p.A., and the fast-growing Supermarkets Italiani (majority owner: Nelson Rockefeller's International Basic Economy Co.). Up to 10,000 customers a day in the two cities revel in the choice of up to...
BRAINPOWER POOL will be formed by General Motors, Thiokol and Gallery Chemical to pursue spaceship and missiles research. G.M. will contribute its engineering and missiles-guidance know-how, Thiokol will add its solid-fuel savvy, and Gallery will bring the combination considerable experience with high-energy exotic fuels.
Four Characters. A U.S. reader prepared to shoulder through Powell's bewildering social underbrush will be rewarded by glimpses of some exotic game and gamy exotics:
Died. Burton Holmes, 88, lecturer, globetrotter, film maker, autobiographer (The World Is Mine), who in 1904 coined the word travelogue; in Hollywood. Son of a Chicago grain broker, Holmes became a world traveler in his teens, spent 55 summers abroad, circled Sputnik-like around the world, gave more than 8...