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...board of directors that controls the board of the other. This tail-chasing organizational scheme works only because the same men are on each board. Although Unilever Ltd. Chairman George Cole, 55, and Unilever N.V. Chairman Frederik Jan Tempel, 61, run the company from adjoining offices. Cole-a husky. low-key executive who started out as a $4.20-a-week junior statistician with United Africa 38 years ago-is popularly considered...
Eleanora's aura of mature respectability, pitted against Jean-Louis' young yearnings, lends low-key drama to her languid, libidinous surrender. The violence in Summer comes with a hellish, heart-halting air raid at film's end, in which green-and-golden youth agonizes over red-and-black realities of war. The slaughter awakens in Trintignant compassion and duty; his suffering loses him Eleanora but gives him manhood...
...Picture, and Milton Berle was relegated to narrating Jackpot Bowling. The networks-which billed some 400 shows as "specials" in 1959-60-had considerably fewer than that this year, and with a few notable exceptions-such as NBC's Coming of Christ on Project 20 and the low-key Another Evening with Fred Astaire-most of them were both artistic and commercial flops...
...Administration is planning a "low-key seminar orientation program," which will probably start this week and run through April and May, Monro revealed. The Faculty committee that has been associated with the African Teaching Project will meet to work out details later this week...
Branching Out. Well under 5 ft. 5 in., and weighing 200 lbs., wearing a rose-gold watch, dark suits and French cuffs, Joe Levine at 55 suggests a sort of low-ceilinged Harry Golden. He is low-key, as well - a surprisingly quiet businessman who was born in a Boston slum, learned about money and gambling from his tailor stepfather, "who made $4 a week and liked to play poker." He quit school at 14, became a drummer for a dress company, in seven years had a small chain of suburban retail dress stores, in partner ship with an older...