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Died. Lord McGowan, 87, longtime leading British industrialist and cartel-championing munitions maker ("I have no objection at all to selling arms to both sides; I am not a purist in these things"), a working-class Scotsman (born Harry David McGowan) who started at 15 as a $1.25-a-week office boy with Nobel's Explosives Co., became co-founder and chairman (1930-50) of the monolithic Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd.; in London...
Mission to Millionaires. To put the National Council's case to conservatives, N.C.C. leaders rejoice in their first layman president, Columbus-born Industrialist Irwin Miller, 52, elected last winter (TIME, Dec. 19) for a three-year term...
Demon Ideology. The island of Carnglass, in the Outer Islands of the Hebrides, turns out to be merely "the microcosm of modern existence." The book's hero is an American lawyer, Hugh Logan, who accepts a commission from a wealthy, Scots-born industrialist to travel to Carnglass and buy the island and Lady MacAskival's ancient castle. In the Kirk microcosm, he obviously represents beneficial U.S. power and the rule of law, just as Lady MacAskival represents an old order that a modern conservative may mourn but cannot hope to restore. Lawyer Logan's allies...
...moving melodrama directed by Louis Malle, who filmed The Lovers. Blonde Jeanne Moreau, who charged The Lovers with her intense, weathered sensuality, is the.star, and the plot at first seems to be that of a satisfactory thriller: Jeanne and her lover plot the killing of her husband, a rich industrialist, but during the getaway the lover gets trapped overnight in an automatic elevator (an authentic French touch). Perhaps things went wrong when Trumpeter Miles Davis was hired to do the sound track; trumpeters are doubtful assets, and should never require feature billing. Director Malle has confined all the action...
Henry J. Kaiser, industrialist LL.D...