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From foods to fads, from business techniques to books, things and ideas American are thus being bought, sold, used, admired and copied all over the world. Yet to jump to the conclusion that the world is becoming Americanized because of this-as disapproving foreign esthetes and uncritical Americans frequently do-would be to take a very bad jump indeed. Despite the admiration for and aping of things American, "Americanization" frequently has little directly to do with the U.S. as a nation; it represents more a desire for the things that Americans have, a thrust toward material wealth that is independent...
...client ($7,000,000-$9,000,000). Board Chairman Carl Ally, 42, along with his two top vice presidents, previously worked for Detroit's Campbell-Ewald, which had the Hertz account from 1934 to 1959. Says Ally of his acquisition: "We needed someone really big to jump...
Apparently baffled or bemused by her first English-speaking role, Italy's Monica Vitti plays Modesty as haute couture: black jump suit for tussling with a would-be lover; slinky silk for all-out assaults; a peekaboo cape for evenings of casual intrigue. Ostensibly, Modesty is a retired criminal genius hired by the British government to save a shipment of diamonds en route to an oil-rich Middle Eastern sheikdom...
...Francisco, Boston, Atlanta and Houston fell in line with the increase, which was the third since last December. At that time, banks lifted their prime rate from 4½% to 5% ; in March they upped it again to 5½%. Taken together, the rises amount to the swiftest jump in borrowing rates in a generation...
...good news, fall in a matter of minutes on bad news, and gyrate with changes in weather forecasts. Last week's action was generated largely by reports of reduced grain surpluses and the Soviet purchase of Canadian wheat. Two weeks ago, Vice President Humphrey caused a 3% jump in soybean futures by revealing in a speech to farm editors that the soybean surplus this fall will be only 32 million bushels, or a two-week reserve, rather than the 48 million bushels that the Government had previously estimated. Soon after, July soybean contracts dropped 11½% as a result...