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...alone. The small domes are light enough to be lifted by helicopter, and they practically build themselves. Non-English-speaking Eskimos can put them together in a matter of hours out of color-coded components. The day his company began erecting a geodesic auditorium in Hawaii, Henry J. Kaiser hopped a plane from San Francisco to see the work in progress, but it was finished by the time he got there, and seated an audience of 1,832 at a concert that same night...
...sculptured ceilings brood over a splendor of blue marble columns, blackamoor statuary, yellow silk furniture, and sepia photographs of ancestors. Every other weekend there is a golf match or a shoot in woods that have recently been restocked with pheasant. The parties at Ferrières, which once awed Kaiser Wilhelm, now hum to brittle conversation and shine with the high fashion of an international society that mixes people of achievement with outsiders of the jet set. Guests have included French Premier Georges Pompidou (who was director general of de Rothschild Frères under his good friend Guy until...
Since the first auto was produced in 1893, some 1,850 U.S. auto firms have gone out of business, two of them (Packard and Kaiser) since World War II. Studebaker's departure from fifth place leaves the U.S. with only four major auto producers. "We were being bled to death," said Studebaker Chairman Randolph Guthrie, a partner in the Wall Street law firm that Richard Nixon recently joined. Guthrie has his own explanation for why Studebaker flopped in one of history's best auto years. "The reason," he says, "is that everyone thought that Studebaker was going...
...zipped together or taken apart in hours, are especially suitable for branch banks, temporary schools or mobile offices. The electric power industry is a particularly attractive area for marketing light metal; Reynolds supplied the cable for a 350-mile power line looping through West Virginia and Virginia, and Kaiser sold the first all-aluminum transmission tow er to Florida Power Co. Aluminum is going into more and more boats as well as into railroad cars and truck bodies; New Orleans' Avondale Shipyards recently launched the world's largest aluminum barge, a giant whose lightness enables it to carry...
...much as any other nation. But demand for aluminum is growing even faster abroad. Alcoa is building plants in Australia, Surinam and Mexico, hopes to raise its overseas capacity 30% within three years. Reynolds is putting up a mill in Canada and a fabricating plant in Turkey, and Kaiser has opened plants in India and West Germany. Recently, Kaiser joined Canada's Aluminium Ltd., France's Pechiney and Britain's Rio Tinto-Zinc Corp. in ambitious plans to build and operate a $112 million alumina plant in Australia. When all the world finally takes to aluminum...