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...flees. Opening the purse, Gimpei finds a minor fortune in yen that the woman has just drawn from the bank; he steals it and flees himself. The woman never reports the loss to the police, for it is money she collected in shame as the mistress of an aged industrialist. Kawabata possessed a delicate sense of the tie between victim and criminal, the kinship of guilt. And of the kinship of sex and death, which the artist, in whatever deformed guises, labors to transcend through art itself...
...those of mere munitions making. Perhaps it is worth recalling the 100,000 slave, laborers in at least 100 concentration camps operated by the Krupps during the Second World War. As testimony at the Nuremberg Trials showed: Alfried Krupp's exploitation of slave labor was worse than any other industrialist's. Nowhere else was there such sadism, such senseless barbarity, such shocking treatment of people as dehumanized material. His power was absolute and therefore absolutely corrupting...
GIOVANNI AGNELLI, Italian industrialist: There are at least two kinds of leadership. One is leadership that cannot be challenged, the other is democratic leadership. The most representative leader of the first kind is the Shah of Iran, who rules over a country where he has absolute powers and has transformed his country into a modern state. At the opposite extreme is the Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, whose opposition has reached 50%. His country represents the maximum of social evolution...
...income, is down at least 30%. The halls of big Lisbon hotels are as empty as morgues, and beaches along the Algarve coast are uncrowded for the first time in years. Meanwhile, Lisbon businessmen have yet to be convinced that the government can handle its problems. Says one leading industrialist: "By October or November there will be a terrible economic crisis. That's for certain. We're going the way of Chile...
...deals to remove 35 Rothkos from the court's jurisdiction. Not so, said Lloyd, producing documents to show that in January and February of 1972 - months before the injunction was is sued in June - he had sold the 35 Rothkos to four wealthy collectors, including 20 to Italian Industrialist Count Paolo Marinotti...