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...when ITT's desire to interfere in Chilean politics was revealed last spring by Columnist Jack Anderson. In fact, because of its clumsy attempts, ITT may now lose some or all of the compensation it would otherwise be entitled to from the federally financed Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC). Reason: if there is evidence that ITT lost its property as a result of meddling in internal Chilean politics, OPIC may reject its claim...
Having reduced Thurber to a my opic misanthrope and the plot to a sentimental muddle, Director Shavelson gets better acting than he deserves. The cast makes a brave fight of it, and there is an especially fine and funny cameo by Herb Edelman, who plays Wilson's agent. While Wilson and wife war with each other over the impending operation, the agent sits with them at a restaurant table, blubbering and sobbing "the courage, the devotion," oblivious to the fact that the marriage is crumbling around...
...write-offs on the losses, but they may be able to collect on as much as half their losses from the Overseas Private Investment Corp., a Government agency that insures investments abroad. If President Allende continues to pursue his intention of turning Chile's resources over to Chilenos, OPIC may have to ask Congress for more money...
...Last week, too, Allende announced that the Chile Telephone Co., a subsidiary of ITT, would be run by a government intervener. The move is seen by some ITT officers as the first step to expropriation. ITT's stake in Chile Telephone is covered by about $100 million in OPIC insurance. Together with the copper companies' coverage, that amounts to more than $400 million in claims. In the 20 years of its existence, the insurance corporation has paid out a total of less than $4 million...
...help of self-sacrifice and a spate of deaths and coincidences. But even readers who respect his serious intent are likely to find Interim disappointing. It is not only cheapened by arty metaphors ("I ceased to pluck at the sleeve of time") and an ornate vocabulary (including "presby-opic," "subfusc," "lincrusta," "curtilage"), but also lacks the dramatic quality of Author Hutchinson's earlier novels (The Unf or gotten Prisoner-TIME, Feb. 26, 1934; Shining Scabbard-TIME, Dec. 28, 1936). Like The Keys of the Kingdom, Interim is a natural for Hollywood-where its spirituality will be melodramatized, its lincrusta...