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...Pearl. Each country has a name for its hovels- in Chile they are callampas (mushrooms) because they sprout so fast; in Argentina, villas miserias (misery towns). The names reflect the inhabitants' pitiable hope or bitter humor. In Lima, one of the worst is wryly called Perla del Sol, meaning Pearl of the Sun. Defacing Rio's beautiful mountainsides are slums so flimsy that they periodically collapse in the rain and slide like an avalanche to the bottom...
...four years now, Soviet dancers have represented a sizable hunk of Impresario Sol Hurok's business. Since 1958, he has imported five companies,† toasted the dancers with champagne and caviar at hotel rooftop parties, and sent them off to the vast American steppes to spread cheer and make money. Last week a shy girl in a flowered robe and korsetki (a kind of satin juniper) stepped to the footlights at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera house and uttered the words "Miz Ukraini" (We are from the Ukraine). Sol had brought...
...year ago, feisty Detroit Lawyer Sol Dann, self-styled "gadfly" of the Chrysler Corp., consumed 70 solid minutes of Chrysler's annual stockholders' meeting with vividly phrased denunciations of the company's management. Last week, at Chrysler's 1962 meeting, Dann held himself down to a scant 43 minutes-which he filled with innumerable punning compliments ("Love begets love") to Chrysler's new management team headed by Chairman George Love, 61. Mused Love wryly: "I wonder what he would have done if my name was Smith." If Love's name were Smith, stockholders would...
...Europe, and at 13 became the youngest student in the history of Rome's Academy of Santa Cecilia to win a master's degree. Hearing of the prodigy. Artur Rubinstein several times invited Barenboim to his home to play. Present on one occasion was U.S. Impresario Sol Hurok. who signed him up at 14 for his first U.S. tour. (This is his fourth...
...Peace seemed likely to break out between the Chrysler Corp. and Proxy Battler Sol A. Dann, 58, the feisty Detroit lawyer who, as a stockholder (5,100 shares), has been harrying management for three years. In return for indefinite postponement of Chrysler's $30 million libel suit against him, Dann proposes to abandon his own suits against a clutch of former Chrysler executives and suppliers for alleged collusion to overcharge the company on parts...