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...Algeria has fallen far behind in tourist facilities. But in Morocco, there are hundreds of miles of beaches in the Blue Country, where the Sahara Desert touches the Atlantic and the sun shines at least 300 days a year. The capital city of Rabat now has a luxurious new Hilton Hotel (up to $18 a day), a swinging night life, and a high-powered crowd of jet-set visitors, who include Princess Lee Radziwill, Mick Jagger and Paul Getty Jr. (who recently bought a Marrakesh palace...
Meanwhile on the West Coast, about 1,200 Douglas Aircraft stockholders gathered at the Beverly Hilton Hotel for the company's final annual meeting. Seventy-two percent of the shareholders voted for merger with McDonnell Aircraft, which is expected to take place at month's end. Even after Donald W. Douglas Sr. described the "sharp and ultimately disastrous reversal of our fortunes," which meant a loss of $27.5 million in 1966, the shareholders gave him a standing ovation. Perhaps symbolic of Douglas' lackluster recent days was a movie shown to the gathering about its DC-8 jets...
...Matters have even reached the stage where, when Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art last week opened an immense Pollock retrospective, some critics decided that it was high time to begin to debunk the "myth" of his achievement. Sniffed the New York Times's Hilton Kramer: "An interesting artist of, say, the third class. It is only the poverty of our own artistic values that has elevated his accomplishment into something higher...
...Allilueva"-her mother's maiden name-she flew on to Rome, accompanied by Embassy Second Secretary Robert Rayle. Then suddenly the story broke, and reporters and photographers turned out in force. Searching for Svetlana, they staked out the U.S. embassy, the airport, Rome's Cavalieri Hilton Hotel and the home of U.S. Ambassador G. Frederick Reinhardt. But Svetlana was nowhere to be found, and Washington, which was be ginning to have second thoughts about the whole affair, was keeping quiet. Finally, to spare the U.S. further embarrassment, Svetlana agreed to go to Switzerland instead and, four days after...
...Foote of the Regimen affair: "That hurt us. We lost accounts totaling $2,500,000 as a result of the conviction, and we found it a handicap both in attracting business and people." Today Emerson Foote, Inc.'s billings are $9,100,000 v. $14 million at Kastor Hilton's peak...