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...more than two years, New Jersey Real Estate Tycoon Philip J. Levin, 58, tried to topple the management of one of the biggest U.S. movie companies, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. He spent $11,480,000 for MGM stock, eventually bought or controlled 720,000 shares, or 14.3% of the total. He put out at least $800,000 to finance two bitter but unsuccessful proxy fights...
...Canadian industry kicked in with another $1,500,000 worth of commissions for more than 15 sculptors. All are Canadians except for the U.S.'s Alexander Calder, whose gigantic $200,000 stainless steel Man on the International Nickel Co. plaza greets Expo visitors as they get off the metro at the Place des Nations...
...Dollar Shops." The Moscow Metro, prime example of Russia's cleanliness, with its magnificently mosaicked underground stations, is another must, as are the museums of art (particularly the Pushkin and the Tretyakov). Americans who drop into GUM, the mammoth department store, must be prepared for elbowing crowds and the Soviet system of shopping: the customer prices the item he wants, then pays for it in advance at the cashier's desk, returns to the display counter with receipt in hand to claim his purchase. Much better bargains are available to Americans at the "dollar shops" (called Beriozka), which...
...kitchen facilities), rest rooms (the Soviets' ladies' room had but two cubicles), and intra-Expo transportation (the mini-rail was so popular that some visitors wanted to spend all their time just riding on it, and officials are now considering imposing a time limit). Montreal's Metro was so jammed that guards had to close down one station because of the panicky crush; workmen hurriedly placed another 500 trash cans on Expo's grounds to hold the extra refuse...
...annual stockholders' meeting last week, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer took over a cavernous Times Square theater currently showing rival 20th Century-Fox's The Bible. MGM's own epic turned out to be a mixture of real life and reel life. President Robert H. O'Brien showed a 25-minute promotional film featuring clips from the company's latest motion pictures, the theme being that MGM's Leo the Lion has been bellowing forth lately with a "roar heard round the world." For one conspicuous member of the audience, that was not enough...