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...Brazil, 23 of the 56 top stocks on the Rio and São Paulo exchanges are joint ventures. Japanese interests hold 40% of the USIMINAS steel plant (annual capacity: 500,000 tons), U.S., Canadian, French and Israeli interests are partners with Brazilians in seven cement plants. In Argentina, Kaiser Industries, which makes 2,500 vehicles a month, is owned 51% by Argentine stockholders, 16% by the Argentine Air Force, 33% by the U.S. parent firm...
...industry and moved it-for an annual membership fee of $25, plus a daily charge of $15 for transmissions-over printers installed free in newspaper offices, broadcasting stations and other communications outlets that permitted the installation. Today Muschel has more than 700 paying customers-among them General Foods Corp., Kaiser Industries Corp. and the American Heart Association Inc.-whose copy is moved daily to 17 nonpaying subscribers, e.g., the New York Times, five other big Manhattan dailies and the U.S. Information Service...
...There, in a Tiberian grotto, guarded by boys garbed as Franciscan friars, he staged Black Masses and homosexual orgies. When his wife protested, he had her locked up as insane. Just when the whole affair broke in the German press, Fritz suffered a fatal stroke and was eulogized by Kaiser Wilhelm II in a state funeral...
What is an important in this strike as the particular issues involved are the implications for collective bargaining. On one hand, the chief negotiator for management has claimed that the steel union president holds power sufficient to cripple United States industry; on the other hand, the pressure of Kaiser Steel and the industry-wide front indicate that the industry's oligopoly is as much a potential threat as is the Union's power. Such large units are not only bargaining for their own livelihoods; their hugeness makes their conflicts and their settlements a public concern...
...business, Edgar Kaiser does not let his private life get into a mold. He wears rakish Tyrolean hats, likes to drive at high speeds, operate his motor boat in the roughest seas, set off powerful firecrackers (one of which ruptured his eardrum). He often buys clothes for his wife, personally outfitted the entire wedding party of one of his three daughters, all married (he also has three sons, Edgar Jr., 17, Henry, 15, and Kim, 11, in Eastern prep schools). Whether Edgar and his wife are ensconced in their six-bedroom, Spanish-style home in Lafayette, Calif, or speeding around...