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...Suez critics. Rab Butler, who lost out to Macmillan as Prime Minister but stayed on as Lord Privy Seal, he identified as "my chief partner in this new enterprise." Two other appointments got widespread attention. One was Macmillan's reaching outside Parliament to make harddriving, self-made Birmingham Industrialist Sir Percy Mills, 67, Minister of Power (Mills was simultaneously made a baron to give him a seat in the House of Lords). With Mills's help, Macmillan hopes to forge ahead with industrial atomic energy, as one way to create "ample opportunity not drab equality...
...Maria Meneghini Callas (TIME, Oct. 29), fresh from a three-week U.S. publicity triumph, rushed to New York's International Airport, Paris-bound with her toy poodle, a black mite aptly named Toy, sharing a first-class booking with Maria. Her retinue also included her husband, Millionaire Italian Industrialist Giovanni Meneghini, ticketed modestly as a tourist-class passenger, but described in a lawsuit earlier in the week by Maria as the man "who owns me as a husband." At the airport, Diva Callas bumped into another tourist-class passenger, none other than fur-collared Baritone Enzo Sordello, fired from...
...hand is that of West Coast Industrialist Norton Simon, 49, who controls Hunt Foods and Ohio Match Co., has major interests in a nationwide string of enterprises ranging from insurance to railroads. Multimillionaire Simon created his empire by buying undervalued companies and building them up. Convinced in 1953 that magazine publishing was being underrated as a result of TV competition, he bought stock in Curtis, McGraw-Hill, Conde Nast and McCall, decided to concentrate on McCall. Simon now controls 35% of the stock, enough to have eight men of his choice put on the 16-man board three months...
Family: Married in 1924 to the daughter of a wealthy industrialist. They have three children, one married to a British diplomat...
During World War II, Rochling bossed Lorraine's iron and steel production plus Saarland industry. At war's end, an Allied court found Hermann Röchling guilty of waging aggressive war, the first industrialist so convicted, jailed him for two years. After Hermann's death at 83 last year, administration of the family empire fell to his nephew Ernst Röchling, 66, who in 1949 had been sentenced to five years behind French barbed wire...