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...handsome Hotel Indonesia, built in Djakarta during the heyday of Sukarno and equipped with everything but paying guests, is suddenly bustling. Checking in last week for extended stays were businessmen from half a dozen nations. American executives, encouraged by the State Department and newly protected by the U.S. Government against investment losses caused by revolution or expropriation, came with plans for everything from stepping up tire production to developing tourism in the archipelago republic...
Rare Birds. Elsewhere in the U.S., lady musicians are having a heyday. The Cleveland Orchestra now has 11, the San Francisco 17, the Houston 25 and the American Symphony 44. Trombonist Betty Glover, 43, adds class to the brass of the Cincinnati Symphony; Helen Taylor, 24, plays a mean English horn for the Houston Symphony. The rare bird in the Los Angeles aviary is Barbara Winters, 28, who, to produce the needed penetrating sounds from her oboe, must pit her trim 120 lbs. against male fellow oboists who average a burly-chested 200 Ibs. To maintain the exceptional breath control...
Seat of Empire. In its heyday, when Hearst was in residence, San Simeon's guards kept the curious miles at bay. Entrance then was by invitation only. Today, motorists are arriving from Los Angeles and San Francisco along winding, coastal Route 1 at the rate of 435,000 a year, and the crowds are growing. On Sunday, the waiting time for visitors can stretch out to three hours-but then Hearst used to keep his editors waiting for days before they were ushered into "the Chiefs" presence...
...from Avon Products-has hired 17,500 women this year, plans eventually to field 50,000, mostly part time. Throughout the country employers are turning more and more to women to fill jobs that they have never held before, or at least not since the World War II heyday of Rosie the Riveter...
...heyday, "Lee Hig" was one of the kingpins of finance both in the U.S. and abroad. Set up in 1848 in a tiny State Street office by Lawyer John Clarke Lee and his cousin, Boston Merchant George Higginson, Lee Higginson over the years financed the development of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe and other Western railroads, built several Boston fortunes by developing the fabulous Calumet & Hecla Copper Mine in Michigan. The firm helped put together General Electric in 1892, led the financing of the struggling General Motors...