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...alone a place for the mechanics to work on our planes. Yet within a few hours, two huge geodesic domes were constructed that withstood all the elements as well as providing hangars for our planes as serviceable as pur own back at El Toro, thus proving that delicate, multimillion-dollar jets could operate out of primitive conditions like those in South Viet Nam, or anywhere else in the world...
Last year 23 new industries set up shop under Jamaica's tax incentive program, and both Alcoa and Reynolds Metals Co. have launched multimillion-dollar expansions. Despite a mild recession, Jamaica is also off to a good start on an ambitious five-year development plan. The government will spend $255 million on housing, schools, roads and land improvement. To increase farm output, Bustamante will slap heavy taxes on idle fields and buy up uncultivated lands to distribute to peasant families at a rate of 10,500 acres per year...
...Lockheed's hard sell has boomeranged in West Germany, where oh-so-korrekt businessmen and politicians are apt to bridle at such high-powered and flashy salesmanship from outsiders. In recent weeks, Lockheed has not only lost a multimillion dollar contract it hoped to get, but has so infuriated German Defense Minister Kai-Uwe von Hassel that he shelved an order that Lockheed had already won. Said Von Hassel: "Those Lockheed guys will not get into my office any more...
...balanced mixture of scholar and bookie with an encyclopedic knowledge of the masters and a computer-like memory (he once spotted an unidentified Watteau, got it for $30), who inherited the house of Wildenstein from his father Nathan in 1934, carried on the family tradition of spot cash for multimillion-dollar collections, blue-chip customers (from Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum to Stavros Niarchos) and controversy (he caused a national uproar in 1960 after he outbid the Louvre for a De La Tour, then exported it to the Met, making himself a profit of at least...
Ronny hit the big time in the picture business in the 1962 film version of The Music Man, has now been signed to star in a string of multimillion-dollar movies. Courtship, adapted from a slick novelette by Mark Toby and expertly directed by Vincente Minnelli, is the first of these. On the whole, it is just another sentimental comedy of the standard Hollywood brand. But at moments the sentiment warms to pathos, at others the pathos breaks up in belly laughs; and in all these moments Ronny is the live wire that sparks the show...