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Planning Ahead. The strong measures have brought wounded howls from many Brazilians. But most businessmen are no longer in love with inflation and are ready to go along. "Inflation," says São Paulo Industrialist Paulo Quartim Barbosa, "is an illusion of grandeur and a guarantee of catastrophe." As for foreign investors, they were busy dusting off all the expansion plans pigeonholed while Goulart was in power. Willys-Overland do Brasil, the country's largest automaker, plans a $30 million expansion, Volkswagen is investing another $21 million in its São Paulo plant, Argentina's Bunge & Born...
...first episode pries into a decadent country villa where wealthy Industrialist Curt Jurgens is dying upstairs while his son Sami Frey throws a wingding below. Suffering through the Oedipal conflict, language dubbing and dense cinematic trickery are Jurgens' wife Alida Valli and daughter Susan Strasberg. Among the more perceptive waiters hired for the revels is Hero Renato Salvatori, who abruptly exclaims: "What a house-lonely, sad, mean and rotten!" Salvatori heads home to Milan, only to find more moral chaos. Jean Sorel is so alienated that he goes to a party and seduces his own wife, luscious Antonella Lualdi...
...Labor Party study found that 35 out of 107 directors of London's top financial houses were all Old Etonians, as were 46 out of 149 directors of the large insurance firms. "The chairman of one board I sat on rang me up," complains one top British industrialist, "and told me, 'We're thinking of putting up so-and-so.' I asked if he knew anything about the business. The answer was 'No, but he's an awfully nice chap and married to so-and-so, you know...
Died. Anson Conger Goodyear, 86, first (1929-39) president of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, a Buffalo industrialist and collector who, in 1929, at the request of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr. and two other Manhattan patronesses of art, began organizing a museum for contemporary painting and design, signed on Director Alfred H. Barr and a cadre of blue-chip trustees, in ten years established the museum as the world's foremost devoted to modern art; of a heart attack; in Old Westbury...
...South African, project was made possible by a gift of $560,000 from John S. Schlesinger '45, a multimillionaire South African industrialist who also holds an M.B.A. from Harvard. Schlep singer's donation represents 30 per cent of the school's total projected endowment...