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Wherever Ava goes, however, sparklers burn in many hands. The Mexican press last week printed the fanciful rumor that she was going to marry the assistant director, Emilio Fernandez, known as El Indio. Some seven years ago the Indian was one of the top directors in Mexico; but he shot a producer and was ostracized. "Emilio's only weakness," says Director John Huston, "is his tendency to shoot people he doesn't like...
...Derr, built by Ramses II, are, like Abu Simbel. cut from rock. They must be pried loose from the cliff before they can be moved. A group of Italian institutions is reportedly interested in Ellesya, and the U.S. has cast envious eyes at Derr. The city of Indio, Calif., would like to transport the temple to the Egypt-like desert of the Coachella Valley...
...drilling -but in holding it. The new solution is a lake lining of seepage-proof polyethylene plastic only six millimeters thick (asphalt and clay break up under water after a time; cement is too expensive). The two top companies in the field, both in California, are Palco, Inc. of Indio and Kepner Plastics of Torrance. In a bulldozed lake basin, plastic is laid down in strips up to 40 ft. wide and 400 ft. long at the rate of about half an acre a day. The strips are sealed together (one company uses heat, the other mastic and tape...
...When Financier Floyd Odlum, longtime boss of Atlas Corp., retired last year at 68 to his Indio, Calif., ranch, the smart money bet that it would not last. Odlum, the argument ran, was constitutionally incapable of slowing down after 37 years of buying, revitalizing, and selling off such companies as Paramount Pictures, Hilton Hotels, Greyhound Corp., Bonwit Teller and Atlantic Refining. Last week, after 16 months of restless ease, Odlum proved the smart money right, swung back into action as chairman of Salt Lake City's Federal Resources Corp. Federal's assets are a paltry (for Odlum...
FLOYD B. ODLUM Indio, Calif...