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Javits foresees a barrier-free trading area stretching from the Rio Grande to Tierra del Fuego and embracing a population of 220 million, with an annual gross national product of $75 billion (v. the European Common Market's 180 million population and $250 billion G.N.P.). The area's sales potential would be so great that Latin Americans would be encouraged to manufacture their raw materials into finished goods themselves, thus not only creating new wealth and new jobs but also freeing the area from its forced dependence on exporting raw materials and importing finished goods. Javits envisions ultimate...
...Beauty Science." She was a hardheaded eccentric who became one of the world's wealthiest women. When she died last week in Manhattan at 94, elfin (4 ft. 10 in.) Helena Rubinstein left behind a $60 million business that stretches from New York to London, Paris and Rio de Janeiro, and sells her preparations in more than 100 countries...
High Maturity? Their efforts have only seemed to polarize Perón's following. From his exile in Spain, he promised to return to "save the people." Last December he made a ludicrously abortive attempt, was turned back in Rio. Today, most of Perón's top lieutenants privately concede the impossibility of el retorno. Perón is under tight restriction by the Spanish government, and he is aging. But he remains a symbol of strength in a country that lacks leadership. In Madrid last week he took a haughty view of the election. "The people...
...troops, and turned up in Brazil in 1946. Feeling himself safe from extradition (Brazilian law prohibits extradition for crimes that could lead to a death penalty), he did not bother to change his name, got married, had three children, and set up a thriving tourist-excursion service, first in Rio, then in São Paulo. His wife recalls no threats, no enemies. She does remember a recent acquaintance who called himself Anton Künzle and cabled Cukurs from Montevideo last Feb. 19, asking him to fly there...
Remember Francaise Dorleac in That Man from Rio? She instilled in that chef d'oeuvre two simple messages: 1) Women are trouble; 2) If you've got to ask whether they're worth it, well, you'd better just skedaddle right on out of Belmondo's league. Jean-Luc Goddard has embraced this prehistoric theme, Paris, and Anna Karina, in a long, zany bear...