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With a total tax revenue of less than $2,000,000 a year, Jawara has vetoed the usual symbols of African pretension and power. Parliament meets in the auditorium of the old colonial country club, and Jawara lives in a modest three-bedroom frame house, drives his own small Hillman Minx, and draws a salary...
...ideas and Reggie tells me why they can't be carried out"), turned his father's auto-sales firm into Britain's largest distributor by unloading cars as fast as they could be delivered, then, deciding that the manufacturers were "too sluggish," bought up the Hillman, Singer, Sunbeam and Humber automaking firms and led the raid on the U.S. economy-car market in the early 1950s, making the family-owned Rootes Group such a profitable venture that Chrysler last year paid $35.2 million for a 30% interest in the company; in London...
London's Sotheby & Co. has become the world's largest art auction house by conscientious attention to both fine detail and broad brush stroke in the art of auctioneering. Last week Sotheby's also portrayed deft talent as a buyer. Outbidding U.S. Investment Executive Alex Hillman, it paid $1.5 million to win 75% control of the major U.S. auction house, Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries. By acquiring its biggest U.S. competitor, Sotheby's secured a long-needed U.S. auction outlet and assured itself the role of auctioneer for most of the important American art collections...
Running Faster. Detroit is capitalizing on the trend. Last week, adding to its investment in France and Spain,, Chrysler Corp. bought a $34 million take in the British market by acquiring 30% of the stock of Rootes Motors Ltd., manufacturer of Humber, Hillman, Sunbeam and Singer cars. Last month Ford announced that it would spend $400 million over the next three years to expand and modernize its European plants, and General Motors is planning to invest $600 million in Europe over the next two years...
...Harvard Advocate has announced the election of Gerald P. Hillman '65, of Winthrop House and Boston, as president for the coming year...