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...will show real growth next year of about 3%-not great but far above recession levels. The business leaders were also encouraged by the voter uprising against Government spending. Said Benjamin Biaggini, chairman of the Southern Pacific Co.: "Proposition 13 is the greatest thing since ice cream." Du Pont Chairman Irving Shapiro exulted that "the public is again captain of the ship. For the first time we're in a posture to get a good economic policy because the public is demanding...
Every day scores of planes, from 747s to vintage C-46s, haul television sets, machinery and other U.S.-manufactured goods to the Caribbean and Latin America, returning with clothing, fresh flowers and food. In Coral Gables alone, 80 international firms have opened offices. Exxon, Du Pont and General Electric have their Latin American headquarters there. International trade now accounts for $4 billion in state income and has created 167,000 jobs, some of which have been filled by other Latin American nationals who have been drawn to the booming area...
...Music knows neither frontiers nor race nor nationalism," the promoter told the crowd of 2,000 Italian and French jazz lovers. With that, Count Basie, 73, the grand old master of keyboard swing, stepped up to a piano placed smack on the Franco-Italian borderline on the Pont St. Ludovic, and with his band launched a medley of such crowd pleasers as Sweet Georgia Brown and Freckle Face. Meanwhile traffic was blocked on both the Italian and French sides of the bridge, and a cacophony of auto horns accompanied the Count. "I've played outdoors before but never like...
...President holds many unpublicized conversations with such fellows as Du Pont's Irving Shapiro, General Motors' Thomas Murphy and A T &T's John deButts. Very often, he seeks the advice of a tall, spare British immigrant who is emerging as one of the three or four most influential spokesmen of American business, General Electric Chairman Reginald Jones...
...G.O.P. blood is rising. There are now four clearly defined categories of candidates or potentials. Oldies-Reagan, Ford. Old newies-Connally. New oldies-Richardson, Bush, Baker, Brock, Percy, Dole, Ray, Mathias, Ruckelshaus. Newies-Borman, Kemp, Heinz, Du Pont, Thompson...