Word: soci
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...agreements granting the Congolese government major stockholder participation in 76 Belgian companies (ranging from the giant Union Minière du Haut-Katanga through Sabena Airlines to the Leopoldville City Bus Co.). It also contained a dividend check for $1,840,000 from the all-pervasive Belgian holding company, Société Générale-the first, Tshombe hoped, of many to come. "From this day," Tshombe proclaimed, "the Congo can call itself politically and economically independent...
Died. Paul Gillet, 73, governor from 1950 to 1961 of Belgium's Société Génerale, the massive holding company that controls 60% of all Belgian industry, a shadowy figure so inaccessible (no published picture of him exists) that even Société officials had difficulty getting to him, but who broke his usual silence in 1960 to argue against independence for the Congo, considering the Congolese "not ripe" for it; after a long illness; in Brussels...
...clock coin-operated laundry in Paris, at ten times what it would have cost him in the U.S.; then he had to educate French housewives in how to use it. Now his machines are coining profits for him 24 hours a day, and one member of Paris haute société sends her maid with the family wash in a chauffeured Rolls-Royce. When Chemical Engineer Frank Manley, 32, and his wife fell in love with life in Laos, he sold their return airline tickets to set up a travel agency. Now, three years later, he has a thriving...
...greeted by an airport crowd of 300 sporting cowboy hats with the AuH.s0 symbol and signs inscribed, OUT WEST WE LIKE BARRY BEST, and he drew 5,000 with a speech at the city's new Coliseum. Arriving in San Francisco, Goldwater told newsmen that the John Birch Soci ety's latest attack on John F. Kennedy as a Communist dupe was "detestable," but he refused to disavow Birchite support. "The John Birch Society is far less of a menace to the U.S. than the Americans for Democratic Action or the U.A.W.," he said. "These are the people...
Hitting the Bank. If cash was the desperate goal of the S.A.O.. two big armed robberies in quick succession fitted neatly into the pattern of violence. Six men broke into the offices of the Société Générale Commerciale de 1'Est on Paris' Quai Anatole-France, forced the president to open the safe, and made off with $80,000 in gold and currency. In Beaune, 170 miles southeast of Paris, thieves looted the safe-deposit boxes of a local bank, getting away with an estimated $2,000,000 in cash...