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...markets. In the U.S., which traditionally buys one-half of the world's gem diamonds, jewelry has lost some of its shine-people who can afford diamonds often prefer other luxuries, such as trips abroad. De Beers is concentrating on the newly affluent Europeans, subjecting them to a multimillion-dollar ad campaign. As usual, the company's name appears only in tiny, sedate type in the ads. It doesn't need to appear at all, for 80% of the world's diamonds are sold through De Beers...
Died. Herman Brown, 70, salty founder and president of Brown & Root, Inc., multimillion -dollar-a-year construction firm, and one of the country's wealthiest men, with a personal fortune estimated at $100 million; of a heart attack; in Houston. Brown & Root's most recent spectacular is a $30 million Mohole contract to drill into the earth's core, but Brown's greatest source of pride was a 1942 U.S. Navy contract to build and operate a shipyard, deliver a specified number of ships by a specified date. Brown & Root had never built a ship...
Died. Thomas Baker Slick. 46. lusty San Antonio wheeler-dealer, whose shrewd investments turned a multimillion-dollar inheritance from his wildcatting father into a scatter-gunned business empire (ranching, construction, oil. mining, manufacturing and air freight); of injuries rei ceived when his light plane crashed in j southwestern Montana. The flip side of I the coin from his sober, mild-mannered I brother Earl, who concentrated on running Slick Airways. Tom preferred to let his money make the money, hired managers to handle the headaches while he indulged a Stetson-ful of sidelines: he pursued the Himalayas' Abominable Snowman...
...script for this film, which is based on the novel, Britain's Christopher Fry has both dramatized and deepened the novelist's reflections. With the result that Barabbas is a cinema curiosity almost as rare as a whale that spouts holy water: a full-color, widescreen, multimillion-dollar religious spectacle that is also, at many points, an intense and illuminating religious experience...
Supported by the other rail brotherhoods, the telegraphers totally shut down the North Western, forcing its 35,000 Chicagoland commuters onto already clogged freeways. When the North Western stopped rolling, so did two-thirds of Wisconsin's multimillion-dollar paper and pulp industry. In the woodlands of Upper Michigan, cut timber piled high at rail sidings, and lumberjacks knew that layoffs were in the wind. Towering grain elevators were idled in Nebraska, Minnesota and Wisconsin because farmers could not move their crops. Cargill Inc. shut its big soybean processing plant in Chicago, and the manager of its Omaha terminal...