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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ferras was born in the seaside town of Le Touquet, the son of a hotel owner who had started to be a violinist but abandoned his career when he cut his left hand on a wine bottle, severing the nerve to his little finger. Father Ferras trained his son until he was 15. Christian won a first prize at the Paris Conservatory, soon afterward made his concert debut in Paris. He has been touring steadily since (England, North Africa, South America...
Ferras says he knew he would be a violinist a year after he touched his first violin, at six, despite the fact that as a boy he fell on a broken bottle on the beach, deeply gashed his left hand in precisely the same place his father once had. "But I was lucky," says Violinist Ferras. "This time it cut no nerves...
...Which was saved from destruction last year after protests prompted Real Estate Dealer William Zeckendorf to buy it, promise to hand it over eventually to the National Trust...
Actually, Henry Ford II and Chairman Ernest Breech had not intended to say anything about Ford's economy car until it was ready to be marketed, lest it keep people from buying this year's cars. What forced the company's hand was the fact that the Ford Foundation is preparing to sell some 2,000,000 shares of Ford Motor stock. Ford lawyers decided that the registration statement on the sale, required by the Securities and Exchange Commission, would have to take note of Ford's plans for the small car. Under...
...very much in the middle," against too much power for both labor and management. He is in favor of "the freest possible market. There is a great danger of cartelism in the American economy and a great deal of concern over the problem of bigness." On the other hand, he does not believe that the closed or union shop or opposition to the right-to-work laws "serves the interests of the unions in the long, long run," calls them "a crutch...