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...American Film Institute, they would probably go off into a corner and cry quietly. As President and Archive Director respectively, Greed is of more than routine interest to them: Erich von Stroheim made it in 1924 and his first edited version was eight hours long; making concessions to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he re-edited the film, finally stopping at a four-hour cut. At that point MGM seized it, cut it to two hours and ten minutes, and the remaining six hours has been missing ever since...
...into such minicities. Developer Raymond D. Nasher has begun work on a "platform city" in Atlanta, and he expects to expand his handsome NorthPark center in Dallas into a similar amalgam of rental housing, hotels and parks. A Cleveland developer this week is announcing plans for a $300 million "Metro City" shopping mall in suburban Euclid; it will include 1,000 apartments, a 400-room hotel, a motel, and a 22-story office building...
After 45 years of publishing magazines and books, Time Inc. last week announced a move into the newspaper business. Having recently decided to buy Little, Brown & Co. as well as 300,000 shares of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Time Inc. reached an agreement to buy its first daily-the Newark Evening News. Time Inc. agreed to exchange roughly 325,000 shares of its common stock and take over a News mortgage debt of about $5,000,000, in return for all the stock of the Evening News Publishing Co. of Newark. The News Co., however, will retain ownership of Newark radio...
...Foxy Fox representing three American oil companies fighting for petroleum rights in an underdeveloped country. Lovers of camp art could watch a carefully edited Tarzan film that illustrated Johnny Weissmuller's "white supremacy" over African tribesmen. And for the surrealist school, there was a likeness of a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lion that slowly turned into a growling Lyndon Johnson...
...country to such cities as Seattle, Atlanta, Los Angeles and Washington- all of which are planning to build new subways- to help them finance technical studies. 80-m.p.h. Bursts. Most heartening example of what a modern subway system can look like and accomplish is Montreal's new Metro. With its quiet, rubber-wheeled cars and elegant, uncluttered stations, it is, except for a lingering problem with the air conditioning, a positive pleasure. One year old this week, it has proved so popular that passenger traffic is running 50% higher than expected; the Metro has even generated an extra midday...