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...elders thought Ohio's private Hawken School was just the place for the heir to a $150 million fortune. Endsville, thought the 16-year-old heir, Cyrus Eaton III, grandson of the Industrialist Cyrus Sr. There was no football team at Hawken, and worse yet, no girls. So Cyrus III took off for Nashville, Tenn., where public West End High School, he heard, has both football and the coeds to go with it. Trying to enroll as a penniless orphan named Seth French, he let it slip that he knew Latin, and before long the jig was up. Said...
...reason for the month-long rise in the price of Wheeling Steel stock (from 25! to 31!) finally became clear: heavy buying by California Industrialist Norton Simon, 55. Holding an estimated 6% of Wheeling's common shares already, Simon is now the company's second biggest stockholder (the biggest: Ohio's Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co.. with around 10%), and he is still buying. Simon, who has built Hunt Foods into a leading West Coast food processor, claims to be interested in Wheeling only as a personal investment, but some Wall Streeters believe he is actually moving...
...unfaithful not only to Duport (an event of which Duport is mercifully unaware) but to Nick. The classic comedy of cuckold and lover and the excruciating embarrassments involved have seldom been done so well in English. There is a party at the castle of Sir Magnus Donners, "the great industrialist," who is widely suspected of odd but harmless sexual deviations and is easily persuaded to photograph a charade in which his guests represent the seven deadly sins. Kenneth Widmerpool, whom Pow'ell addicts have already enshrined as one of the great ones in the long waxwork gallery of English...
Willys' strength is due partly to the foresight of U.S. Industrialist Edgar Kaiser, who in 1954 took the then-daring decision to enter Brazil's auto market on a partnership basis and personally guaranteed a $42 million Bank of America loan that provided Willys do Brasil's working capital. But it is due as well to enthusiastic Brazilians who decided that they could switch successfully from assembling imported Jeep parts to actual manufacturing of cars. The odds were long. One visiting U.S. auto executive, after studying the shed where Jeeps were being assembled...
...Because they regard all labor unions as, in effect, arms of the Mexican government, many businessmen feel that management would be outnumbered 2 to 1. Unwilling to run the risk of antagonizing the Mexican government under such circumstances, local businessmen said nothing publicly. Privately, most agreed with a U.S. industrialist who said that "how dangerous it is depends on how it is managed." At the very least, he added, the new amendment would make foreign companies think twice before investing in Mexico: "If you don't know how much profits are going to be, you're going...