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...hills each year. In the West, they were trying out the ski tows and warming huts at such new places as Big Mountain in Montana and Alpine Meadows in California. But the major mecca for college-agers at Christmastime is the town of Aspen, developed by the late industrialist Walter Paepcke high in the Rocky Mountains, 105 miles southwest of Denver...
Died. Aleksandr Vasilievich Topchiev, 55, chemist credited with a major role in developing the liquid rocket fuels that enabled the Soviets to build their huge space vehicles; of a heart attack; in Moscow. Topchiev was a frequent visitor to the Pugwash conferences staged in Nova Scotia by Russophile Industrialist Cyrus Eaton, where the chemist enjoyed preaching that science is above national politics. But he had a pragmatic side: in 1958, a fellow Russian remarked that what he feared most was an accidental and irresponsible attack on Russia by the U.S., and Topchiev grinned back: "What I fear most is responsible...
Though better known for its shrewd bankers and sharp traders, tiny Lebanon has the nearest thing to a major industrialist in the Arab world. He is Emile Bustani, 54, who, as chairman of Beirut's Contracting & Trading Co. (CAT), bosses the biggest of all Arab-owned industrial enterprises...
Locking Up Hughes. Trippe's opportunity to snatch off TWA opened up two years ago when Millionaire Industrialist Howard Hughes was forced by a consortium of banks and insurance companies to put his 78.2% of TWA's stock into a voting trust in return for $165 million in loans to the airline. Under Charles Tillinghast, 51, the new president appointed by the trustees, TWA lost $38.7 million last year. In desperation, Tillinghast began seeking a merger partner...
...Japanese industrialist grimly, "is to tighten security and then spy right back on those who are spying...