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...taken to tossing hand grenades into such Chinese-controlled factories as Vimitex (the Viet Nam-American textile company). Simultaneously, the Viet Cong stepped up their "tax rate" on Chinese goods moving through Red-held territory from the Mekong Delta. "We are here to live and do business," explains one merchant. "We must survive to do business. The Vietnamese government cannot guarantee us security; therefore we must find it where we can. If that means paying V.C. taxes, acceding to V.C. demands, then . . ." The Chinese pay their taxes...
Chained to the Cliff. One of eight daughters of a Cracow merchant, Helena Rubinstein launched a thousand ships for herself by making women care to be beautiful, stashed her jewels in drawers marked D for diamonds and R for rubies. She slept in an illuminated Lucite bed that she had had designed for $675 (which sold for $200). Her wealth was reckoned at more than $100 million, but she was frugal enough to eat lunch from a paper bag and strong enough, at 93, to stand off three thugs who tried to burgle her New York apartment...
Paying the manufacturer's list price shown on the window sticker of a new car may be about as smart as snapping up an itinerant rug merchant's opening offer. Very few buyers do- but equally few have any notion of the facts on which dealer dickering is based. Such knowledge can save the buyer several hundred dollars...
...Germany, Eric Warburg, 66, a naturalized U.S. citizen, has helped make his family's Hamburg investment bank one of the fastest-growing financial houses on the Continent. His cousin Siegmund Warburg, 63, has become the most rapidly expanding merchant banker of London's City. Increasingly, the two men are uniting. Siegmund holds an interest in Eric's Hamburg bank, and Eric has a stake in Siegmund's recently started Frankfurt branch...
...Saigon protests himself, meeting with Buddhist leaders and assuring them that he supported their program for elections and social reform-but also warning that street demonstrations would be ruthlessly crushed. Ky is a man of his word: last week, in fulfillment of his pledge to shoot war profiteers, Chinese Merchant Ta Vinh was executed at dawn by a firing squad. U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge also met with Thich Tri Quang to caution moderation. To quell the demonstrations in the north, Ky sent the ousted General Thi back to I Corps to calm and reassure his own disappointed supporters...