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Chrysler of late has been suffering from a profitless prosperity; first-quarter profits dropped 28% in 1960 under 1959, though sales were up 34%. Part of the problem is rising costs, but Colbert is determined that none of the slippage should result from supplier overcharging and executive rake-offs...
...ladies roasted oxen in their rooms, made dissenters walk the plank, fired machine guns down the halls ("Girls! Girls! A little less noise please"). He spread his humor through weekly features for Punch and London's News Chronicle, including a cartoon-strip parody on Hogarth's The Rake's Progress, and illustrations for books and magazines. Now, at 40, Searle is developing his more serious side (he conveniently blew up St. Trinian's with an A-bomb). He prefers to be "something of a roving reporter," recently completed a distinguished book on Europe's refugee...
...mates, is rocking the town with scandal. When one decent husband's eyes are opened, his affectionate if promiscuous wife harshly berates the prude. Then, drugging the virtuous lady, she plots with a procuress to make the lady believe that while unconscious she was violated by the town rake...
...itself-violated Lucrèce theme sounds louder chords, as the pure lady bids the rake kill himself only for him to be killed in a duel, as the righteous judge rejects the wife he thinks was raped and she takes poison, rejecting life itself, Giraudoux's artificial story remains scrupulously behind glass. But gusts of realistic rain or melodramatic sleet from time to time beat against it. Giraudoux cleverly lets his characters remark how tragedy is jostling farce, or drama is encroaching on comedy. But the play, as it plunges over rapids in which both men and women...
...private Western businessmen, the outlook is dark indeed. Government cooperatives are taking over foreign trade, and Touré's Comptoir Guinéen du Commerce Extérieur, the state-owned trading agency, is so deep in debt that prohibitive taxes are being levied on oil companies to rake up new funds. In fact, Toure's treasury is so strapped for cash that it has not even been able to keep its commitments to its Communist barter partners, has vainly sought loans from private French banks...