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...oversensitized, the cars grind to a dismaying halt if even a light bulb fails. The trains often skip stations or fail to open doors after stopping, while passengers inside bang on the windows to get out and those waiting to board bang on the glass to get in. Houston Industrialist Howard Purvis says that he was recently trapped aboard Airtrans "for two complete circuits. Finally, I got off close enough to my flight gate to race to it. Barely made...
...company is more than 100 years old, and we have worked under regimes different from the previous one," said Jorge de Mello, co-owner of the Companhia União Fabril conglomerate and Portugal's leading industrialist. "I am confident that we can meet the challenge of adapting to new conditions. After all, private businesses flourish under socialism in Scandinavia, Britain, and Holland, don't they...
...with angst and festooned with a lot of fussy, soft-focus photography that makes its sober speculations on national culpability look like the latest thing in a trendy magazine: "Germany - Forgive and Forget" or "The Fatherland: Two Decades of Remorse." The subject of the film is a prominent German industrialist who may or may not have participated in executing most of a Greek village. His complicity in this wartime slaughter may also have driven his son (played, for his brief appear ance, by Schell) to his death. Peter Hall, new head of Britain's National Theater, puts...
...problem is not the size of the oil contributions-corporate contributions are still legal and a major source of political parties' funds-but rather the favors the oilmen allegedly got for them. Whether the companies can clear themselves depends largely on the eventual testimony of Industrialist Vincenzo Cazzaniga, who until two years ago headed both Unione Petrolifera and Exxon's local subsidiary Esso Italiana. A warrant for his arrest has been issued, but he is now on a business trip abroad. Cazzaniga is specifically charged with having distributed about $2 million to politicians in 1972 to make sure...
Getty's was the most spectacular kidnaping involving the rich or their offspring in Italy last year-but hardly the only one. In 1973 there were 16 major kidnapings for ransom in Italy. Late last week Student Pier Giorgio Bolis, 17, of Bergamo was abducted; his wealthy industrialist father has duly received a telephone call to negotiate a ransom...