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WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.).* Elizabeth Taylor, Dana Andrews and Peter Finch star in Paramount's 1954 Ceylon-based love triangle. Elephant Walk. Color...
...please, whether he is buying the paintings with which he surrounds himself or acquiring interests in a growing list of companies. The boss of the $400 million Hunt Foods & Industries, he is also a major stockholder in McCalls and several other companies, recently bought into American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres and acquired a 23% interest in Canada Dry. Simon may crack a few executive heads behind the scenes once he takes over a company, but his takeovers have not been marked by public rancor. Last week, however, he let fly at the former boss of one of his newest companies, excoriating...
...word about the situation. "You're throwing me to the wolves again, Mr. President," he said amiably. He went on to say that he and President Johnson had "talked about all aspects of the situation-everything you can think of." He concluded by saying that his paramount duty on returning this week to Saigon would be to confer with South Vietnamese officials about subjects ranging "across the board...
...things (girls, in case that leaves any ambiguity for the Allen Ginsberg set). For every occasion and for every character he created dances that showed the genetic influence of vaudeville, the Charleston, the Hasty Pudding, and Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev. By some particularly brilliant stroke, he cast John Lithgow as Paramount the First, King of Utopia...
Simon will leave the actual running of the steel firm to others, but his takeover at Wheeling-where he owns only 8.8% of the stock-was certainly enough to make a few other people nervous. Among them: Leonard Goldenson, president of American Broadcasting-Paramount Theaters, which a few months back turned down a bid from Stockholder Simon (controlling more than 200,000 shares) to become a board member, and Roy W. Moore Jr., president of Canada Dry, which let Simon onto its board in August after first rebuffing his bid. Simon owns a 23% interest in Canada...