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...Pawnbroker. In his murky, cluttered shop in Spanish Harlem's upper depths, Sol Nazerman sits behind a wire partition coldly doling out pittances to the people he calls "scum and rejects." Hopefully, they come to hock personal or stolen goods. They look to the old Jew for understanding, or even a fair price, and see the eyes of a man whose last links to life were cruelly severed decades ago in a Nazi concentration camp. Now he speaks of those days as if he were carving an epitaph: "Everything I loved was taken from me, and I didn...
...Premier Pedro Beltran, policies that the military junta had the sense to continue, Peru's foreign reserves had climbed from almost nothing in 1959 to $106 million by 1963, old industries like iron and copper mining were expanding, new industries like fish meal were growing, and the sol had become one of Latin America's stronger currencies. Then here came Belaunde, inexperienced in government, unschooled in banking or economics. He came with a platform that seemed to promise all things to all men, a rare gift of phrase, and a tendency toward impulse...
...real estate, as in baseball or show business, most participants strive not only to be first in the standings but to let the world know about it. A pair of entrepreneurs named Alexander Di-Lorenzo, 48, and Sol Goldman, 47, are quite different. So quietly that almost nobody knew what was happening, they have become the biggest buyers of real estate in the nation's richest real estate market, New York City. Estimated gross value of their holdings: at least $200 million...
Presuming you're the sort who'd buy an Edsel from a used car dealer, or oil stock from Billie Sol Estes and can extend that old willing suspension of disbelief to a rough and tumble World War II setting I think I may have just the movie...
...effect of Belaúnde's leadership was to make 1964 the best year ever for Peru's economy. Exports-chiefly fish meal, cotton, copper, sugar and iron ore-jumped 25% to a record $665 million, the G.N.P. rose an impressive 12%, and the sol (3.7?) remained one of South America's most stable currencies. On Lima's outskirts, General Motors is completing Peru's first auto-assembly plant, a $5,000,000 operation that will enable Peruvians to buy autos without paying duties that go to 110% on most U.S. models. Fourteen other automakers...