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...same artistic bait, Sir Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards Jr. and Dean Stockwell also agreed to work for less. Landau saved further by eliminating the expensive teams of scriptwriters who customarily turn a theater classic into unrecognizable hokum. Last week Landau, who has long been outraged by Hollywood's multimillion-dollar spending to produce supercolossal flummery, premiered his film at the Cannes Festival with the announcement that it had cost only...
...Essex; United Artists). Man stands at the edge of space like a child at the edge of the sea, skipping sophisticated, multimillion-dollar pebbles that sink out of sight. What man needs is a ship that he can sail on the new ocean and bring safely back to port. Four years ago, he produced the first crude model of such a ship, a rowboat of the infinite called...
...Lady of Hanover Square"-W. R. Grace & Co.-appeared to be sinking into the feebleness of age. For generations, Grace Line ships had raced unchallenged along the west coast of South America, trading cargoes of coffee, cacao and sugar and piling up 90% of Grace's multimillion-dollar profits. But after World War II, as subsidized Latin American merchant marines sprang up to compete for cargoes and challenged Grace's trading supremacy, the company's profits fell from $13,000,000 in 1946 to $8,000,000 in 1952. Even more serious, Grace's economic life...
...skies over Flushing Meadow are not all cloudy. Already more than $5,000,000 worth of industrial exhibit space has been rented, multimillion-dollar pavilions are on the drawing boards (General Motors is already committed to an exhibit). The tab for the Unisphere-the fair's theme symbol (it resembles an under-construction earth with only the steelwork in place)-has been picked up by U.S. Steel. Seventy-five percent of the state and federal area has been allocated (conspicuously absent: a big bloc of Western states loyal to the Seattle Fair, at which, incidentally, the New York Fair...
...cries of "monopoly" aroused by the attempt of Britain's mighty Imperial Chemical Industries to swallow fibermaking Courtaulds Ltd. (TIME, Jan. 26), the loudest have come from mild-mannered Avison Wormald, 49, managing director of Fisons Ltd. another multimillion-dollar British chemical company. A onetime boarding school teacher who sparked Fisons to much-needed modernization and expansion. Wormald accused I.C.I, of wanting "to obtain complete control of the manmade fiber industry in this country in order to participate in a European fibers cartel," predicted that if the merger went through, "every important chemical company in Britain will ultimately succumb...