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...pick up the mail from home and meet fellow travelers is American Express. Famed as they are, however, the American Express offices in Paris, Rome, Tokyo and just about every other capital have never been the company's big profit makers. For many years, Amexco was really not much more than a bank with a tourist front. Lately it has branched into two dozen other areas of business, to become a sort of department store of financial and travel-related services...
Unlike some executives who take a paternal pride in diversification moves. Clark has not hesitated to shed businesses as well-including some that made money but not as much as he would have liked. Amexco acquired the Uni-card credit business in 1965 and expanded it, but sold it last January-for a $16.6 million profit. Early last month, it agreed to sell its freight operations to Pacific Intermountain Express...
...fragmented dairy industry. The French government heartily approves Perrier's bid, which would both foil any foreign attempt to take over Genvrain and represent a major move toward consolidating France's 3,000 scattered dairy firms. Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing indicates as much in a meeting with the publicity-shy strategist of Perrier's expansion, President Gustave Leven. Perrier makes a generous proposal for Genvrain: $56 a share for stock that was selling for $45 on the Bourse. Genvrain would be mate No. 2 for Perrier. It has already wooed and almost...
...real object of Fowles' bifocal vision, though, is not so much the Victorian novel as the life it reflected. His story unfolds amid quotations from the prophets of the age (Marx, Darwin, Tennyson), factual footnotes (married farm laborers at that time, he reports, got twice the wages given bachelors), and provocative sociological speculations (the Victorians, he suggests, may have enjoyed sex even more than our own oversexed century, because they practiced it less frequently). The purpose of all this is to place his characters, as no Victorian novelist could have, in a long perspective as exemplars of the historical...
...young at heart, listen as "The Gingerbread House" is retold with a newfangled horror. Spellbound spectators, hear for the first time Noah's brother laugh, then rage, at the builder of the ark. And much, much more...