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...Russian Adventure. "Who are the Russians? What is Russia? We couldn't possibly supply answers to these questions, but we're going to have a lot of fun trying," drawls Narrator Bing Crosby, fingering a balalaika. Bing thus introduces this Russian-made travel triptych, a cultural exchange import aquiver with evidence that the Soviets lack Cinerama's skill at matching seams. In Kinopanorama-an equivalent three-screen process-cities, rivers, mountains and ice floes all hump up at the center and slope away precipitously...
Spikes & Volts. Leopoldo Pirelli is a deeply tanned sailing enthusiast and an imaginative businessman, the third in the family line since Giovanni Battista Pirelli established the company in 1872 because his patriotism was hurt when Italy had to import rubber tubing to raise a sunken ship. He set up a factory on the site of the present Milan skyscraper headquarters, and from there Pirelli grew to be Italy's fourth largest company. Giovanni's son Alberto helped sponsor the Peking-to-Paris auto expedition in 1907 as a promotion for Pirelli tires. Alberto also took a ride...
...attempted to import Communist arms, has received both money and ad vice from Communist diplomats, has at tacked fellow Cabinet ministers as "imperialist agents...
...reconnaissance missions" have been swackingly successful. In an era when imported plays have dominated Broadway, Merrick has skimmed most of the cream off the import market. He frequently gets there first, offers top bid, makes selections both shrewd and estimable. He can watch a London play and calculate to the dollar the cost of producing it on Broadway. And what...
...Germans insist that they cannot afford to pay the EEC treasury big farm subsidies, which will chiefly enrich French farmers, unless their industries can profit from Kennedy Round tariff reductions. Moreover, all Six, plus Britain and Switzerland, insist that the U.S. must scrap its present method of setting certain import duties before the Kennedy Round resumes...