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...Gulf & Western Industries, having further broadened its diversified operations (auto parts, mining, chemicals) by acquiring Paramount Pictures last year, moved into consumer products for the first time by reaching an agreement to buy out Consolidated Cigar, the nation's biggest cigar maker (Dutch Masters, El Producto, Muriel), in a $150 million stock swap. At the same time, Gulf & Western's young (40), acquisitive chairman, Charles Bluhdorn, sweetened his company's stock offer for E.W. Bliss Co., an Ohio-based tool-equipment manufacturer that, like Consolidated, had 1966 sales of about $158 million. If the Bliss deal goes...
...expose the really "in" people in swinging London, this novel about a public relations man with an identity problem seems headed for bestsellerdom. A first printing of 40,000 copies has been ordered, the Literary Guild has snatched it up, paperback rights have been sold for six figures, and Paramount plans to film it. But nothing swings all that much in the book...
...Middle East, on the contrary, as the crossroads of the world between Asia and Europe, as the area of confrontation between Russia and ourselves, as the source of oil, is of paramount strategic importance to the U.S. Therefore the survival of Israel is a vital interest of the U.S. As a Western-oriented democracy, it is an invaluable and inalienable ally in the Middle East, and more than that, as has been amply demonstrated, is ready, willing and capable of fighting for itself. This is not an accidental but a fundamental difference from South Viet...
...latest discovery of Producer Ivan Tors, 50, who has besieged TV on land (Daktari), at sea (Flipper) and in the air (Ripcord). He is the king of the "beasties"-outdoor adventure films starring big-name big game. This month, as part of a 14-picture pact with Paramount, Tors released Africa-Texas Style, a semidocumentary with Hugh O'Brian as a cowpoke who hunts big game with a rope instead of a rifle. Also planned or in production at Tors's studios and animal compounds, scattered from North Miami and Saugus, Calif., to Nairobi and the Bahamas...
Nowadays Linda stages large dinner parties, stalks studio executives day and night. After she cornered Paramount Production Chief Robert Evans last month, she came away with a four-picture contract, beginning at $7,500 for a week's work in The President's Analyst. Romina was to portray Snow White, a teeny-bopper who gets seduced by James Coburn. "That's more money than Ty was making when he was tops at Fox!" exulted Linda. "That's the cocktail...