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...invitation of Nikita Khrushchev, who apparently wanted an American he could be nice to, Cleveland Industrialist Cyrus Eaton, 76, recently awarded a Lenin Peace Prize, flew to Paris with his invalid wife, but got there only as K. was about to depart at Orly Airport. Eaton told K. the story of George Washington, the cherry tree and telling no lies. Later, Eaton was asked if he regarded Dwight Eisenhower as a liar in the spy plane ruckus. "No," replied Canadian-born Millionaire Eaton, "but we pulled some serious fibs. We need to return to the principles of George Washington...
Ford, 46, a good friend since Nixon's early days in Congress; Charles Percy, 40, Chicago industrialist (president of the Bell & Howell Co.) and chairman of the blue-ribbon Republican Committee on Program and Progress (TIME, May 11, 1959); and Attorney General William...
...President Eisenhower's jet took off from Ramey Air Force Base in Puerto Rico last week, it left a stream of political smoke behind. With Ike in the big, orange-trimmed plane for a friendly chat en route to Washington went Luis Ferré, 56, the millionaire industrialist, accomplished pianist and M.I.T. honor graduate who is running for Governor on the Statehood Republican Party ticket in the November elections. The trip got big Page One headlines in Puerto Rican newspapers, and Candidate Ferré beamed: "We talked as one Republican to another...
...proof were needed that New England Industrialist Bernard Goldfine no longer has any White House influence, it came in a blockbusting indictment from a federal grand jury in Boston. The longtime crony of ex-Presidential Aide Sherman Adams was smitten with two charges: evasion of personal income taxes (1953-57) amounting to a whopping $450,961, and dodging corporate income taxes (1952-57), owed by his Strathmore Woolen Co., to the tune...
Died. Adriano Olivetti, 58, Italian industrialist who turned a one-plant operation he inherited in 1932 into Europe's No. 1 manufacturer of typewriters and office machines of such craftsmanship that they grace art museums as well as offices; of a heart attack, aboard a train in Aigle, Switzerland. An idealistic businessman as well as a sound one, Olivetti boasted that he gave his workers the best conditions in Italy and a voice in management. In off hours he promoted a broad-based cooperative movement, on the strength of it won a seat in the Chamber of Deputies...