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...fairly typical day last week, Humphrey dropped by the White House at 8 a.m., conferred with Presidential Aide Bill Moyers, then went to his desk in the Executive Office Building across the street. There he talked with a West German industrialist and Brazil's Archbishop Helder Pessoa Camara before dashing back to the White House to huddle with Johnson and Senate leaders about legislative plans and programs. Next, Humphrey was off to the Hill to preside over the opening of the day's Senate session ("You keep hearing people say that presiding over the Senate is a dull...
Taxes have risen to such confiscatory levels, charge the industrialists, that Indian investors are afraid to put money into new ventures or into the expansion of existing ones. Said India's No 1 industrialist, J.R.D. Tata, at a New Delhi neeting: "No other country, including the most socialist countries, has resorted to such heavy, complicated and multiple burdens of taxation." As a result, added Steelman Tata, businessmen show "universal gloom, despondency and uncertainty about the future." K. P. Goenka, president of the powerful Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, charged that past 16 months have brought...
...Carrot. Cyrus Eaton Jr., son of the U.S. industrialist who has long championed trade with the East, has opened a Cleveland-based company called Tower International to help arrange and finance deals between the U.S. and Iron Curtain countries, has already signed up as a sales agent for Hungary. The U.S. now favors such deals instead of frowning upon them, hoping to use U.S. trade as a carrot to lure the satellites closer to the West...
Died. Andres Soriano, 66, Philippine industrialist-financier who built a personal fortune estimated at $80 million, first as president of the family-owned San Miguel Brewery, then as chief stockholder of an ever-proliferating flock of businesses that included at one time or another the Philippine Air Lines, the Philippines Herald, and mining, fertilizer, electronics, engineering and insurance companies; of cancer; in Boston...
...grand. On hand at Bombay's Santa Cruz airport to meet the Pope were India's diminutive Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri, stately, goateed Moslem Vice President Zakir Hussain (wearing white Congress caps that paired with Paul's white skullcap), and the country's leading industrialist, J.R.D. Tata...