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Married. Jean Peters, 44, onetime movie actress (Captain from Castile, 1948) whose divorce from Industrialist Howard Hughes became final in June; and Stanley L. Hough, 51, a vice president of 20th Century-Fox; both for the third time; in West Los Angeles...
Died. Jayant Madhvani, 49, East African industrialist and, as the oldest of Uganda's Madhvani brothers, head of one of Black Africa's largest family-owned and locally based corporate empires; of a heart attack; in New Delhi. After the death of his father in 1958, Madhvani, an Indian, became the main driving force behind 63 companies worth $56 million in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. Credited with building East Africa's first steel mill, the soft-spoken Hindu also served as globetrotting eco-nomic ambassador for the region. "We don't want history...
...Commerce departments call the nation's "trading posture." On the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, except for some Maine ports, only Delaware Bay has deep enough water to handle the world's growing fleets of supertankers and giant cargo ships. But in a recent letter to a complaining industrialist, Peterson bluntly suggested that there was a somewhat less economic alternative: "Forgo the use of large vessels and continue to use smaller vessels...
...Miami dance hall, an 80-year-old retired industrialist and his 60-year-old wife shuffle their feet and tap their toes as energetically as the real estate salesman, the undertaker, the fat lady and the others in their class. In a steamy Manhattan studio,' an eleven-year-old boy wearing a Captain America sweatshirt stomps out a machine-gun-like rat-a-tat tap routine; near by, the blonde 40-plus winner of Coney Island's Glamorous Grandma contest, in black-and-white-checked hot pants, sharpens her rhythm...
Michigan General, a maker of abrasives, among other things, quickly smoothed out the situation. It changed the image. Vulcan was dethroned, the stacks were scrapped, and the stock certificates now show three men-a scientist, an industrialist and a workman. Informing its employees of the change, the company noted that smoke billowing from stacks, "once a sign of progress, [is] now an indication of unhealthy conditions." With the new certificate, it added, "Michigan General Corp. is fighting air pollution in spirit as well as in substance...