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...Munich and Düsseldorf. Siemens, West Germany's biggest electrical-equipment company, moved its headquarters out of West Berlin after World War II, and others have followed suit. The inconvenience of maintaining facilities geared to West German markets in West Berlin is only too apparent. Complained one industrialist after recently abandoning Berlin: "Last year I spent 250 days aboard airplanes...
Jacob Blaustein, LL.D. former U.N. delegate, co-founder of the American Oil Co. Rare blend of statesman, industrialist and humanitarian...
...Ladies and gentlemen," announced the auctioneer at Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries, "we now come to the Krupp diamond"-a flawless, 33.19-carat blue-white stone once given by German Industrialist Baron Alfried Krupp to his wife Vera, and considered one of the world's great gems. $100,000, commenced the auctioneer, and up shot the price. $150,000 . . . $175,000 . . . $225,000. At $300,000, even Jeweler Harry Winston, who had long coveted the stone, was forced to drop out. Winning bid: $305,000. The determined purchaser: Richard Burton, who sent his agents to snap...
...avid collector, Los Angeles Industrialist Norton W. Simon, 61, over the past four months alone has acquired, among other art works, a Picasso, two Cezannes, three Pissarros and a millon-dollar Manet. As a company collector, Simon has been buying up businesses for years. Now, he is forming the bulk of his collection into one assemblage. Last week the directors of his Hunt Foods & Industries and two companies it controls-McCall Corp. and Canada Dry Corp.-agreed to form a single company, which will be called Norton Simon...
...other candidates for the P.D.P. nomination immediately surfaced: Senate Majority Leader Luis Negrón López, 58, and Santiago Polanco Abreu, 47, the island's commissioner in Washington. Waiting to profit from the P.D.P.'s current split is Industrialist Luis Ferré, head of the pro-statehood New Progressive Party...